Following a teaser last month, the full trailer for Aussie filmmaker Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man” has now gone online.
Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Sam Jaeger and Matilda Firth co-star in the film in which a man seeks to protect himself and his family from a dangerous werewolf at night during a full moon.
Speaking with Discussing Film, Whannell says one key difference with this film as opposed to other werewolf movies is there’s no supernatural aspect:
“In modernizing the werewolf, I didn’t want to make it about a curse or anything mystical. In our post-pandemic world, the proximity to people in our own homes who can be ill with a dangerous sickness is what was most interesting to me.
You can take all these classic monsters and wrap them around different concepts to modernize them. In this way, Wolf Man has much more of an infection angle.”
This will mark Whannell’s fourth directorial effort following “Insidious: Chapter 3,” “Upgrade” and “The Invisible Man”. Like the latter, this is a reinvention of the classic Universal monster franchise.
Universal and Blumhouse will release the project in cinemas on January 17th.
Protect your own. #WolfManMovie only in theaters January 17. pic.twitter.com/7gVZG4JWzV
— Wolf Man (@WolfManMovie25) October 18, 2024
