Gotta love the werewolf news today! Inspired no doubt by the success of their recent TV series adaptation of Dracula, NBC is going to attempt to resurrect one of their other monster properties with The Wolfman for a new series. The classic tale of a man cursed with lycanthropy will come from Daniel Knauf, who also is the executive producer and writer of Dracula. You can read on below for more details.
Deadline is reporting, NBC is developing a contender for it Friday supernatural block anchored by Grimm, which is currently paired with Dracula. It hails from Dracula executive producer/head writer Daniel Knauf and is based on Universal Pictures’ Scott Stuber-produced 2010 feature The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins, which in turn was a remake of the 1941 movie.
The WolfMan is one of two projects Knauf has at NBC, along with a supernatural telenovela produced by Electus that is part of the company’s 3-for-1 telenovela deal at NBC, intended to result in a 13-episode order.
The WolfMan, produced by Universal Pictures sibling Universal TV and Stuber’s studio-based Bluegrass Films & TV, is described as a supernatural thriller that explores what it means to be a man and to be human. It centers on Lawrence Talbot, who is afflicted by an ancient curse and jacks into the powerful, primordial soul of the alpha-predator. Knauf is writing and executive producing with Stuber and Quan Phung.
I happened to really like the 2010 remake of The Wolfman, I know I’m in the minority on this, but the effects will be the key for a series to work. If there is a really great looking werewolf with great transformation scenes, then this may have a chance, we will have to see.
Watch the trailer for 2010’s The Wolfman here:
Source: Deadline
