Universal is prepping a new take on another classic monster, Variety reports tonight, with Ryan Gosling attached to star in Wolfman, with the hunt for a director currently underway.
The title character had most recently been brought back to the screen in 2010’s The Wolfman, with Benicio Del Toro in the role. That movie was just one of several attempts Universal has made in recent years to reboot their movie monsters for modern audiences, with Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man this year beginning a new vision for the classic characters. Rather than making any further attempts to create an interconnected series of monster movies united under a “shared universe” umbrella, Universal is focusing on creator-driven standalone films.
Variety notes that Cory Finley (“Bad Education”) is one of the directors being considered for this particular project, but that no decisions have been made on that front just yet.
The film is based on a pitch from Gosling himself, who at one point was going to direct. Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo (“Orange is the New Black”) wrote the script.
Other monster movies in the works from Universal include Paul Feig’s Dark Army, Dexter Fletcher’s Renfield, Matt Stawski’s Monster Mash, and Elizabeth Banks’s The Invisible Woman.
And James Wan is reportedly producing a new take on Frankenstein.