Julia Garner Joins Leigh Wannell’s Mysterious Wolf Man Reboot

The path to Universal and Blumhouse’s Wolfman reboot—acknowledged proper right here as Wolf Man—has been sluggish going. Nonetheless on Friday, the movie added a model new star to its solid in Ozark’s Julia Garner.

Per Deadline, Garner could have the lead perform as a mother whose family ends up terrorized by the titular werewolf, participating in reverse Christopher Abbott. (The two actors beforehand labored collectively in 2011’s Martha Marcy Would possibly Marlene, Garner’s expert showing debut.) Her casting comes weeks after Abbott took principal man duties from Ryan Gosling, who’d been hooked as much as the film for years sooner than dropping out. Whereas he gained’t be starring throughout the movie, Gosling will nonetheless perform an authorities producer.

Frequent has been attempting for over three years to get a Wolfman reboot off the underside, and once more when Gosling was connected, the huge draw was that he’d supplied his private pitch for the movie. That mannequin was first penned by Dumb Money writers Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, and later had Leigh Whannell of The Invisible Man fame tapped to direct. Whannell’s involvement was locked down in full this earlier December, the equivalent time as Abbott was launched to get changed by Gosling.

Outside of this new Wolf Man, the studio can be talked about to be at work on a recent reboot for one different member of the Frequent Monsters catalog. That film, to be directed by Scream 6’s Radio Silence, is beneath deep wraps, nevertheless the acknowledged solid incorporates Melissa Barrera, Kathryn Newton, Dan Stevens, and the late Angus Cloud. Whether or not or not there’s completely different Monsters who’ll be launched into the fashionable day, or if Whannell’s Invisible Man will reappear with a sequel, is presently unknown.

Wolf Man is predicted to launch in theaters on October 25, 2024.

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