Emergency editors called in for THE WOLF MAN!

The Wolf Man is a lost cause. I've been saying it for over two years now and today's news that emergency editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch have been brought on board to fix the meandering mess of a movie is the final nail in the coffin for Universal's tentpole. Actually, the final nail was when the project was delayed for a third time. This latest news, which has happened after several expensive re-shoots, re-cut trailers and the letting go of a high-wage composer who had provided a whole complete score and paying for a completely new one from another guy, well it feels like it's an afterthought at the wake. The Wolf Man was buried long ago and it's incredible to me how many millions Universal have wasted on trying to fix it. Goldblatt (Terminator 2) and Murch (Apoclaypse Now) are fine, fine editors, two of the best in the business and won't have been cheap. Benicio Del Toro's dream of playing The Wolf Man, his favourite movie as a child, has been ruined by Universal's complete mis-handling of the project. They should have given up on this ghost a long time ago, and maybe it shows just how much they have riding on this picture to be successful. The Wolf Man was initially set to be the first of the classic Universal horror movies to be resurrected and it was always looked upon as being the banker for the studio, the one that was easy to get off the ground and be successful. After The Wolf Man was to be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Keanu Reeves, David Goyer's re-imagining of The Invisible Man, followed by Neil Burger and his Bride of Frankenstein and then Creature From the Black Lagoon, not to mention the sequels, spin-off's and cross-over potentials. And that would just be a first wave. Universal would be likely to also make another Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and probably they would look deeper and deeper into the lost archvies for other projects they could make. But once The Wolf Man belly flops the way it looks like it will on Valentine's Day, well it will basically it will be 2004 all over again. The year Van Helsing suffered the same fate disastrous fate and kept back the above mentioned movies for years.