‘Wolf Man’ Starts Filming Ahead of Halloween Release
Blumhouse’s Wolf Man has started filming, producer Jason Blum has announced on social media. The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell is directing, with Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner starring.
Universal Pictures has set an October 25, 2024, release date. Though that may seem ambitious, should this be a low-budget shoot like The Invisible Man (which was filmed July 15-Sept. 11, 2019 for a late Feb. theatrical release), they will probably get away with it. Whannell was brought back last year after Derek Cianfrance and Ryan Gosling bowed out — he was Blumhouse’s first pick for director but had to step down due to scheduling. However, after the project took forever to put together and Gosling was out, Cianfrance also left and Blum went back to his original pick.
The script is by Whannell and Corbett Tuck, along with Dumb Money‘s Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. In the story, Abbott and Garner play a married couple part of a town that is being terrorized by a lethal predator. Abbott was originally supposed to appear in Ari Aster’s Eddington, which started filming last week, but eventually chose Wolf Man. Why? Even though the former’s profile is bigger, the Blumhouse project will be built around him (and Garner), whereas he would have been just another actor in Eddington — like he was in Poor Things, for instance.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
