New WOLF MAN Image and Leigh Whannell Teases Film Is "Straight-Up, Pure Horror"

We’ve sewage a caller image to stock pinch you for Universal Pictures’ Wolf Man movie, and it features Christopher Abbott's characteristic Blake opening his translator into a werewolf.

The head of nan film, Leigh Whannell, besides talked astir nan movie successful an question and reply pinch Empire, and he teases that he wants Wolf Man to beryllium “straight-up, axenic horror.”

He told Empire: “Upgrade was much sci-fi action. I was watching a batch of home thrillers erstwhile I wrote The Invisible Man, because I emotion that genre. [Wolf Man] is maine saying, ‘I conscionable wanted to make thing that is straight-up, axenic horror.’”

Whannell, who besides directed The Invisible Man, went connected to say: “I deliberation of it arsenic a companion portion to The Invisible Man. I didn’t want this movie to beryllium a nostalgic aliases a retro Wolf Man movie successful immoderate way.”

So, this is going to beryllium a very different and unsocial talk connected nan werewolf mythology. He added: “[I was] really penning down successful my notepad everything that’s been done, and past saying, ‘Okay, that’s nan database of what not to do.’

“I’m hoping that you spell successful and say, ‘Oh wow, I haven’t seen that werewolf movie before,’ erstwhile nan lights travel up.”

In nan film, Blake, a San Francisco hubby and father, “inherits his distant puerility location successful agrarian Oregon aft his ain begetter vanishes and is presumed dead.

“With his matrimony to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to return a break from nan metropolis and sojourn nan spot pinch their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth; Hullraisers, Coma).

“But arsenic nan family approaches nan farmhouse successful nan dormant of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, successful a hopeless escape, barricade themselves wrong nan location arsenic nan animal prowls nan perimeter.

“As nan nighttime stretches on, however, Blake originates to behave strangely, transforming into thing unrecognizable, and Charlotte will beryllium forced to determine whether nan panic wrong their location is much lethal than nan threat without.”

The movie is group to beryllium released successful January 2025.