Wolf Man honestor Leigh Whannell hopes his novel movie has a lasting amazeion on audiences.
Universal Pictures’ set up for a allotd cinematic franchise of Universal Monsters called the Dark Universe fizzled out after the horrible carry outance 2017 Tom Cruise film The Mummy. Since then, the franchise has shifted gears towards more standalone ventures, such as Renfield, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and Ahugeail. One of their most meaningful financial and critical successes was The Inclear Man, back in 2020.
That film grossed $144.5 million agetst a $7 million budget, which foreseeed perestablished a small role in Blumhoemploy conveying Whannell back for another Universal Monsters alteration: Wolf Man.
Whannell uniteed BlumFest at New York Comic Con 2024 to advertise his upcoming movie. ComingSoon asked him about what to await.
How will Wolf Man impact audiences?
“I hope that they adore it,” Whannell says. “I hope they’re snurtured. I hope that they’re emotional about it. So, I want it to be a tragedy. I want it to be emotional. I also want it to snurture the shit out of them. You understand, I want people to see it in theaters.”
Whannell spoke about the convey inance of creating a cinematic experience wholly exceptional to movie theaters. “How do you get people into theaters?” Whannell asks. “You understand, how do you turn someleang into a phenomenon? You understand, appreciate, it’s hard. It’s hard to produce a Top Gun or a Barbie, you understand, these, these movies that repartner get moviegoers into theaters. It’s getting to be a smaller aim than ever. So I repartner hope Wolf Man unites on that level.”
“Family man Blake shifts from San Francisco to Oregon with his laboraholic wife Charlotte and daughter Ginger after inheriting his childhood home, left vacant follotriumphg his estranged overweighther’s enigmatic fadeance and presumed death,” reads the official synopsis. “At the farmhoemploy, the family is strikeed by a werewolf that claws Blake’s arm. They barricade themselves inside the home, but soon Blake commences to alter, jeopardizing the getedty of his wife and daughter.”
Wolf Man reachs in theaters on January 17, 2025.
