Ryan Gosling To Reteam With THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES Director Derek Cianfrance For WOLFMAN

Ryan Gosling To Reteam With THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES Director Derek Cianfrance For WOLFMAN

It's being reported that Ryan Gosling (Blade Runner 2049) is set to reteam with his The Place Beyond the Pines and Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance for Universal's upcoming Wolfman movie!

By RohanPatel - Oct 26, 2021 08:10 PM EST
Filed Under: Wolf Man
Source: Deadline

Deadline is reporting that Universal's upcoming Wolfman reboot has found its director in Academy Award-nominee Derek Cianfrance, who is now set to reunite with his 2x Academy Award-nominated Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines star Ryan Gosling. 

Cianfrance will also pen the script, with Gosling producing alongside Ken Kao and Jason Blum. 

While a big studio movie like this doesn't seem like something Cianfrance would typically tackle, it sounds like Gosling's pitch really won him over. In his statement, he said; 

Horror movies were my first love — my entry into what cinema was capable of narratively, psychologically and aesthetically. Coupled with the opportunity to collaborate with Ryan again, this is truly a dream come true. I’m thrilled and inspired to work with the good folks at Blumhouse and Universal to bring this monster back to life in our collective unconscious.” 

Aside from the basic werewolf premise, plot details remain under wraps for now, but the film was previously rumored to be a modern-day tale and was being described internally as something more akin to the Jake Gyllenhaal-fronted thriller Nightcrawler, albeit with a supernatural twist. Gosling would portray an anchorman who gets infected by the werewolf gene. 

No potential production start date has been given, but this is the latest in a long line of projects Gosling has in the pipeline, including Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Project Hail Mary adaptation, Duke Johnson's The Actor, and Greta Gerwig's Barbie. He recently wrapped The Russo Brothers' The Gray Man for Netflix, where he stars opposite Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. 

In addition to Wolfman, Universal is also actively developing Elizabeth Banks' The Invisible Woman, Karyn Kusama's Dracula, Dexter Fletcher's Renfield, and Paul Feig's Dark Army

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Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 10/26/2021, 9:40 PM
Finally a full movie about Robert Weston Smith.
CurlyBill
CurlyBill - 10/26/2021, 10:10 PM
The Wolfman is my favorite horror creature so I was excited when this was announced. I think I'm even more excited with Cainfrance as the director, he seems like such a weird but interesting choice. I'm really liking these updated takes on classic monsters. I'd love if they did a modern adaption of Dracula and really focuse on the predatory nature of the character like a cross between Dracula and Hard Candy.

Superfan1
Superfan1 - 10/26/2021, 10:54 PM
What about 2010’s The Wolfman with Benicio Del Toro? It seems like that one is always overlooked. I thought it was really well done, gory but not gratuitously so. That story set in modern day could be cool.
Menks123
Menks123 - 10/26/2021, 11:00 PM
@Superfan1 - I thoroughly enjoyed that movie.
rcd3d
rcd3d - 10/26/2021, 11:31 PM
@Superfan1 - I wanted to love that movie so bad but I feel it was a loss in the 3rd act and anthony hopkins phoned in performance.(IMO) Plus the whole daddy werewolf was.... weird. I loved the asylum scene and escape. I would have liked to have seen a sequel to it but sad that it underperformed.
generictheeric
generictheeric - 10/27/2021, 3:32 AM
@Superfan1 - The best one in my opinion.
Supersperm
Supersperm - 10/27/2021, 12:26 AM
I thought Leigh Channell was going to direct this which had me pretty excited...now it's going to be some art house crap oscar bait film.
rexlincoln
rexlincoln - 10/27/2021, 2:54 AM
I dig both Whannel and Cianfrance as directors so I'm happy with this. Cianfrance is a really interesting choice for this and I can see him doing something akin to Mike Nichol's Wolf.
TheDpool
TheDpool - 10/27/2021, 3:32 AM
As a huge fan of Place Beyond the Pines I'm happy with this, that movie was sexy to look at.
I do enjoy Gosling, and the idea of him playing the Wolfman is exciting, but I was hoping for the classic tale told in a modern setting.

Could picture Goslings popular actor trying to sneak out of town after his first big public display as the wolfman, the News Anchor role is just giving me Howling vibes and if anything American Werewolf in London is the go to Werewolf movie to take inspiration from.
Demigods
Demigods - 10/27/2021, 12:27 PM
I'm pretty stoked about this Wolfman movie, and I'm even more stoked to see what Dark Army has to offer... but... Karyn Kusama's Dracula sounds like it's going to be total shit.

However, I always wait to see because I try to remember the general feeling when Heath Ledger was cast as the joker. A good movie maker can turn something you think you'll hate into something seriously sweet so who knows.

But "futuristic western vampire" was already done and it worked for what it was... I don't like the idea of THE universal Dracula being that. But who knows.
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 10/27/2021, 1:34 PM
Please study and avoid any tonal similarity to this ...
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