It’s an action-packed Trailer Thursday today. Yahoo have just debuted Joe Johnstone’s “The Wolf Man” starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt.
From what we recall, it looks mostly like the exact same trailer that debuted at Comic-Con last year possibly with the additions of some CGI-based scenes, which begs the question: after all the controversy that surrounded the film with re-shoots, why throw up the trailer they’ve been holding onto for a year?
It’s pretty much what you’d expect. A decent-looking, eerie Gothy-period piece that seemingly falls apart at the first sight of CGI-monsters. What’s up with that trend today? One particular monster looks like a descendant of the much-maligned bunch that were haunting Will Smith in “I Am Legend.” Del Toro, Hopkins and Blunt look like they could hold the film together in all the other parts but, nevertheless, not looking altogether great.
Del Toro’s transformations into the Wolf Man and his potential monstrous counterparts were always going to be the problem and unfortunately it looks like they’ve just churned out another installment of the “Underworld” franchise in that department. Surely, a more basic approach of sticking to practical effects would have worked better? There goes that but, without further ado, here’s the trailer. Note, the release date is February 12, not exactly an Oscar-winning release date. Maybe the “Inception” trailer can do better? Let’s hope. Cause geeks have been sorely let down today.
The trailer doesn't get me amped per se, but it doesn't look too bad. The disappointing bit is probably how tired and uninterested Anthony Hopkins looks- it feels like he's done this movie ten times already, which considering the reshoots wouldn't be surprising.
I can see why Universal has been tooling with this so long, there's no way this is going to make money or have mass appeal.
Funny People is way less niche than this.
This looks like it might be fun and Hugo Weaving looks great, love his facial hair!
There was a big stink between Rick Baker (Howling, American Werewolf in London, Wolf) and the producers because although they hired him to do the makeup, they were planning (and did it appears) to use CGI for the tranformations. He eventually took his check and backed out, and now look what they're stuck with. Why CGI, why?