We're gonna need a bigger silver bullet to put this Universal monster down! After all the pre-production trials & tribulations, the eventual critical slamming and audience apathy that greeted the rebirth of the furry fiend on his last last outing (hell even director
Joe Johnstondidn't like the movie), Universal are setting up an unlikely sequel to
The Wolfman. It would seem despite the $61 million domestic take for a movie budgeted at $150 million (!!) the dog barked louder at home with cracking dvd sales so, according to an insider
speaking to Bloody Disgusting, Universal are convinced The Wolfman will howl again, albeit in a direct to disc sequel and they have hired writer
Michael Tabb (Fear Itself: Dark Memories...no...me neither) to pen the screenplay. We say 'sequel' but you can pretty much expect the new approach for the home video market to contain plenty more blood, gore, t & a and fur, plenty of fur but don't expect any
Best Make Up Oscar 2011 winning work from Rick Baker and Dave Elsey this time or any of the notable cast & crew crew to return. Oh how Universal's big desire to return to the Universal Monsters for a lucrative revival has failed. They had planned The Wolfman to be a long franchise for them that would kickstart other properties such as David Goyer's remake of The Invisible Man, a redo of Jekyll & Hyde, Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula, with a series based on Hugo Weaving's Wolfman character Aberline also hoped for.... but that early optimism seems a million miles away from today.