WEREWOLF BY NIGHT: How The Special Presentation Sets The Stage For The MCU's Monstrous Future - SPOILERS

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT: How The Special Presentation Sets The Stage For The MCU's Monstrous Future - SPOILERS

We're taking a closer look at what happens in Werewolf by Night, explaining how the Marvel Studios Presentation sets the stage for a new era of MCU storytelling as monsters finally enter the fray...

By JoshWilding - Oct 07, 2022 07:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Werewolf By Night

Werewolf by Night arrived on Disney+ earlier today, and the Marvel Studios Special Presentation perfectly sets the stage for monsters to finally enter the MCU. 

Jack Russell attends a gathering of monster hunters who have come together to lay claim to Ulysses Bloodstone's family relic as it grants the wielder the power of long-lasting life and the chance to rule this cabal. To win that, the hunters must track down a creature within a maze and kill it, taking the Bloodstone from the enraged beast. 

Elsa Bloodstone is among those looking to lay claim to that powerful artefact, though she clearly doesn't have the same twisted outlook as her late father's widow or those around her. As for Jack, he's no monster hunter and is secretly there to help that beast - Man-Thing - escape as he and "Ted" are old friends who have been travelling together for some time now. 

Jack and Elsa eventually agree to team up, and a lot of gory kills follow.

Unfortunately, Jack's true nature as a werewolf is revealed and he and Elsa are imprisoned together with Verusa using the Bloodstone to force him to transform. He smells Elsa beforehand in the hope of remembering her when he becomes an uncontrollable beast, and makes short work of that cage, breaking out and murdering the hunters and Verusa's goons. 

Jack's plan worked and he leaves Elsa alone, fleeing into the night. Verusa, meanwhile, takes aim at Elsa, only for Man-Thing to appear and melt her into nothing. Elsa points him in the direction of where Werewolf by Night fled and she sits down, taking her place as the rightful wielder of the Bloodstone, with the colour returning to the screen and placing this quirky story firmly in the MCU.

Later, we see Jack wake up in a shelter made for him by Man-Thing. The two discuss who saved who, and agree to get sushi.

There is no post-credits scene, but monsters now exist in the MCU and it feels like big changes are coming for this shared world. Elsa Bloodstone is likely going to become a major player as the rightful wielder of the Bloodstone, while Werewolf by Night and Man-Thing's bond might just be leading to them forming their own Legion of Monsters!

What did you guys think about Werewolf by Night?
 

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Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 10/7/2022, 8:03 AM
its pretty good
perhaps instead of tv shows, they should do tv specials or tv movies
DoubleD
DoubleD - 10/7/2022, 8:13 AM
OFF TOPIC but Marvel Studios.

MY THOUGHTS on Daredevil: Born Again.

That series will run for a whopping 18 episodes I started getting bored with 6 and 9 episodes. Even with WandaVision and Loki 9 episodes I was starting to get bored wanted it to wrap up. 18 weeks for episodes going to be slog even for Daredevil.

What was great about Netflix Daredevil and other shows you could binge watch and didn't have to wait for a week. Try watching Netflix Daredevil as a weekly show it doesn't' work lot of filler and boring even back then.

I Binged Watched all the Marvel shows and Cobra Kai :)
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 10/7/2022, 8:18 AM
@DoubleD - what?? 18 episodes is a [frick]ing gift, man. TV used to be 24 episodes a season in the good old days. Now everything has to be a 6 hour movie and it's rarely even worth it. 18 episodes means there's more time to breath and relax. do a filler episode here or there. Plus it's written by cable TV guys. These are all pluses here
DoubleD
DoubleD - 10/7/2022, 8:31 AM
@Dredd97 - I don't watch ANY television shows except the Marvel / Disney shows. I get bored easily. I don't even watch any of these Star Wars shows on Disney.

Give me movies or I like these new Marvel Studios Special Presentations format.

Best thing Marvel Studios / Disney should do is let people Binge Watch their shows like Netflix.
SerKurtWagner
SerKurtWagner - 10/7/2022, 9:30 AM
@DoubleD - Binge-watching is not just a blight on the medium, it's a failed business model. Name one binge-model show that has had a lasting pop culture impact. Stranger Things is pretty much it. It may take a bit of a learning curve to restore our collective attention span, but it's inevitable. (And, IMO, necessary on multiple levels)
SerKurtWagner
SerKurtWagner - 10/7/2022, 9:34 AM
@Dredd97 - YES. Thank goodness we're getting an actual TV show again! Streaming isn't the only cause, but it's wild how utterly upended so many people's ability to engage with long-form media has been in such a relatively short stretch of time.

We've got people with peanut-sized attention spans who can't stay invested without constant action and have been conditioned by YouTube "film critics" to hate filler and recoil at anything that doesn't immediately advance the plot. As an aspiring screenwriter, it sucks to see. But thankfully the industry seems to be coming back around.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 10/7/2022, 9:47 AM
@SerKurtWagner - Netflix is still around and let their users Binge Watch all their shows or watch more than one-episode a week.

Pretty much everyone I know including me watch more than one episode or still Binge Watch.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 10/7/2022, 9:53 AM
@SerKurtWagner - I watched the first season of Walking Dead and then got bored and stopped watching in the middle of the second season.

I have never watched The Boys on Amazon or any of their weekly shows.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 10/7/2022, 9:57 AM
@DoubleD

Why not binge The Boys when the season is over? Lol.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 10/7/2022, 9:58 AM
Wait for all the episodes to drop.
DoubleD
DoubleD - 10/7/2022, 10:04 AM
@regularmovieguy - First I have never been interested in the series for some reason and I don' t Amazon Prime account.

I now have a Disney Plus account that includes Hulu, and ESPN plus. I have Netflix through a family members account.
thewanderer
thewanderer - 10/7/2022, 10:14 AM
@DoubleD - I've been re-watching She-Hulk with my wife, and I'd agree that She-Hulk works better in a binge format.


I don't know that there's one singular answer to the right format.


For Daredevil, I wouldn't be opposed to them doing a 9 week run with 2 episodes a week, or 2 episodes only some weeks if the episodes closely tie together.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 10/7/2022, 11:20 AM
@DoubleD - Trust your CBM brethren: The Boys & Invincible = great shows.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 10/7/2022, 11:21 AM
@SerKurtWagner - Orange is the New Black, Severance, Homecoming, Narcos, Black Mirror, House of Cards, The Ozarks.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 10/7/2022, 11:27 AM
@Dredd97 - People always talk about these “good old days” of 22 and 24 episode seasons of tv, but they never left. Turn on any network station and there are still a million 22 episode sitcoms and police procedurals or TNT dramas. They have to be that long because all of their money comes from commercial sales, and it leads to a bunch of filler in a season. Sure sometimes filler can be good, character defining stuff, but I don’t think many shows need that much time to tell a story. You end up with villain of the week stuff like on Flash.

I think prestige television had it right with 10-13 episodes a season, coming out weekly. Not too bloated to tell a coherent story, and enough time to breathe and actually digest the material. I agree that we’ve seen that the binging model makes it harder for shows to stick.

In regards to Born Again, did they ever actually say it would be 1 season? I find it hard to believe that Disney would green light an 18 episode season after the model we’ve seen that they’re into. I think it’ll be 18 episodes split into a couple seasons.
SerKurtWagner
SerKurtWagner - 10/7/2022, 1:34 PM
@VictorAlonzo - Out of those, I'd argue the only ones with a lasting cultural impact have been Orange is the New Black, Black Mirror and House of Cards, all of which launched when the binge-model was a new novelty and Netflix was the only player in the game. Now you have dozens of streamers dropping new shows every day of the week. It's a totally different market.

Also - Severance was weekly release.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 10/7/2022, 2:50 PM
@DoubleD - lol 30 min episodes confirmed. Yikes
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 10/7/2022, 3:27 PM
@SerKurtWagner - "Name one binge-model show that has had a lasting pop culture impact."




RegularPoochie
RegularPoochie - 10/7/2022, 4:03 PM
@SerKurtWankcer - there a lot of them
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 10/7/2022, 8:15 AM
Didn't that look like the head of a Wendigo mounted on the wall at the beginning?
ElvenKingSlayer
ElvenKingSlayer - 10/7/2022, 8:28 AM
@comicfan100 - There certainly was art depicting a wendigo in the show
FearTheLiving
FearTheLiving - 10/7/2022, 11:30 AM
@comicfan100 - Looked like it to me.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 10/7/2022, 11:30 AM
@comicfan100 - That’s what I was thinking too.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 10/7/2022, 8:22 AM
Didn’t read the article and haven’t watched the special yet but we all know there’s going to be spoiler articles posted every 20 minutes by He who shall not be named (because he has several aliases) so this is my one comment for the day. PLEASE DONT SPOIL WEAR WOLF by NIGHT IN ARTICLE TITLES and THUMBNAILS ALL DAY!!!
And since we all know they’ll post spoilers and just add the text *spoiler• in the same title I’ll just remind youts.
cyclopsprime
cyclopsprime - 10/7/2022, 8:25 AM
@slickrickdesigns - I don't like spoiling things for people except for my enemies
Nunyabiz
Nunyabiz - 10/7/2022, 8:26 AM
WAIT, Man-Thing talks?
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 10/7/2022, 8:54 AM
@Nunyabiz -

More like growls.
Nunyabiz
Nunyabiz - 10/7/2022, 9:39 AM
@DrReedRichards - thats better
contrast
contrast - 10/7/2022, 11:13 AM
@Nunyabiz - he and Jack have kind of a Han/Chewie thing where he makes indestinct noises and Jack can somehow understand what he's saying.
BassMan
BassMan - 10/7/2022, 4:46 PM
@Nunyabiz - be respectful, it’s Ted
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 10/8/2022, 6:30 PM
@contrast - it's the animal and plant monster relationship to make up for losing rocket and groot I imagine.
GodHercules20
GodHercules20 - 10/7/2022, 8:50 AM
Best Disney+ Marvel show/movie yet. This is how you do gore without overdosing it

Now I want to see Man Thing vs Hulk in live action
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 10/7/2022, 8:55 AM
That was unexpectedly nice! About as good as already reported, if only just a tad overhyped due to the old school cinematography, but also unexpectedly wholesome as a story and a very exciting new side of the MCU.
ShaggyRogers
ShaggyRogers - 10/7/2022, 9:03 AM
Very entertaining. Awesome theme. Good action.
Well written story.

Early reactions 8.1/10
2050
2050 - 10/7/2022, 9:24 AM
The special was brilliant. Reviewers were right in that it was way more violent than what most would expect from a Marvel production. I’ve never been a Marvel horror/monster fan, with the exception being Blade, but I can start being one if Marvel continues this level of quality on upcoming projects.
FearTheLiving
FearTheLiving - 10/7/2022, 11:29 AM
@2050 - I'd recommend reading the old 70s Marvel horror stuff, lot of really good gems in there.
thewanderer
thewanderer - 10/7/2022, 9:27 AM
Laura Donnelly as Elsa Bloodstone bears an incredible resemblance to a younger Anne Hathaway.
OmegaBlack13
OmegaBlack13 - 10/7/2022, 11:32 AM
@thewanderer - Pretty sure they’re like the same age lol
thewanderer
thewanderer - 10/7/2022, 11:57 AM
@OmegaBlack13 - ha damn, Anne Hathaway is actually younger than Laura Donnelly.

Good job makeup crew. The black and white probably helped too lol.
bobbo68
bobbo68 - 10/7/2022, 9:43 AM
Liked the special I would love if the MCU did a special presentation about Man-Wolf

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