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The Wolfman
Director: Joe Johnston
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Starring: Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Geraldine Chaplin, Frederick Abberline
Language: English
Country: United States, United Kingdom
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The Wolfman is an 2010 remake of the 1941 classic horror film of the same name. The remake is directed by Joe Johnston and stars Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Art Malik. Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.
Set in the late 1880s, the film keeps the plotline of the original, with Lawrence Talbot (Benicio del Toro) reuniting with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins) following the disappearance of his brother. Lawrence Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoore, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search.
He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.
As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full. Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoore. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself… one he never imagined existed.
Cast:
- Benicio del Toro as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolfman
- Gene Simmons as the voice of The Wolfman
- Spencer Wilding as The Wolfman special effects creature actor
- Anthony Hopkins as Sir John Talbot, Lawrence’s father. Hopkins said the Universal Horror series “when played today come across as pretty corny, but they were entertaining.”
- Emily Blunt as Gwen Conliffe, with whom Talbot falls in love. Blunt liked the “mythological”, “gothic and majestic” story and signed on despite her fear of horror films. Blunt said Gwen was probably the first “innately good” character she ever played.
- Hugo Weaving as Detective Aberline, who investigates murders by the transformed Talbot. The name Francis Aberline is a play on Frederick Abberline, who was a real life Victorian inspector working on the Jack the Ripper case; his real nickname was indeed Francis.
- Geraldine Chaplin as Maleva, an old Gypsy
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