Jason Blum Celebrates Start of Production on Universal Horror's Wolf Man with Director Leigh Whannell

Later this year, we'll finally get the next chapter in Universal Pictures' reimagining of its line of classic movie monsters withemWolf Man/em, and for the first time, we've got a photo from the set to prove it./p pProducer Jason Blum, founder of the iconic horror production juggernaut a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/blumhouse" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/blumhouse" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/blumhouse" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Blumhouse/a, tweeted a photo over the weekend celebrating the first day on the set of the new film, which reimagines the classic 1941 pictureemThe Wolf Man/emstarring Lon Chaney Jr. It's a simple image, just a snapshot of director Leigh Whannell holding up the first slate for principal photography on the film, but after years of waiting for this film to materialize, it's cause for celebration./p p/pdiv class="embed-code-other"blockquote class="twitter-tweet-lazyload"p lang="en" dir="ltr"Day one on the set of Wolf Man. Director Leigh Whannell pictured here. LFG!!!brbr📸: Nicola Dove/Universal Pictures and a href="https://twitter.com/blumhouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@blumhouse/a a href="https://t.co/qeny3bjYdl"pic.twitter.com/qeny3bjYdl/a/p— Jason Blum (@jason_blum) a href="https://twitter.com/jason_blum/status/1769527758995251632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"March 18, 2024/ascript async src="https://www.syfy.com/themes/custom/lifestyle/js/twitter.min.js" charset="utf-8" class="optanon-category-13" type="text/plain"/script/blockquote /div pstrongMore on Universal Horror:/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/leigh-whannell-wolf-man-remake-everything-we-know" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/leigh-whannell-wolf-man-remake-everything-we-know" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/leigh-whannell-wolf-man-remake-everything-we-know" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Leigh Whannell'semWolf Man/em: Everything We Know/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-the-20202-invisible-man-weaponized-emptiness" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-the-20202-invisible-man-weaponized-emptiness" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-the-20202-invisible-man-weaponized-emptiness" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"How the 2020emInvisible Man/emWeaponizes Emptiness/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/best-blumhouse-horror-movies" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/best-blumhouse-horror-movies" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/best-blumhouse-horror-movies" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"16 Essential Blumhouse Movies All Horror Fans Should Watch/a/strong/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="c5e72b92-8078-4e48-88ab-cdf60987a702" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/ww.jpg" width="862" height="575" alt="A split featuring Director Leigh Whannel and Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolfman (1941)." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Director Leigh Whannel attends the "Invisible Man" premiere at Gaumont Champs ELysees on February 17, 2020 in Paris, France; Lon Chaney Jr. appears in The Wolfman (1941). /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images; Universal Pictures/Getty Images /span /div /div /div /div pWe've been expecting some kind of update toa data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/the-wolf-man" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/the-wolf-man" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/the-wolf-man" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emThe Wolf Man/em/aever since Universal's attempt at a monster movie shared universe in 2014. That universe didn't materialize, but the studio did regroup with an approach that allowed filmmakers a bit more individualized freedom in taking on new versions of classic characters. That approach eventually gave us 2020'semInvisible Man/em, Whannell's own reboot of James Whale's 1933 classic, which arrived to critical acclaim and commercial success. On the strength of that project, Whannell was asked to reconsider a Wolf Man movie, and a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/wolfman-leigh-whannell-sims-sparkd-percy-jackson-show-update" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/wolfman-leigh-whannell-sims-sparkd-percy-jackson-show-update" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/wolfman-leigh-whannell-sims-sparkd-percy-jackson-show-update" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"joined the project/a in the summer of 2020./p pFor a while, that's where things sat, with Ryan Gosling poised to take on the title role in the new, directed and co-written by Whannell. Gosling eventually backed out of the project, leaving room for Christopher Abbott (emPossessor/em,emPoor Things/em) to take on the leading role, while Gosling himself will remain an executive producer. Julia Garner (emOzark/em,emThe Americans/em) is set to co-star./p pAnd right now, that's all we really know aboutemWolf Man/em. The film will star Abbott as a guy trying to stave of a "dangerous predator," which probably means he has to reckon with the realization that the predator is inside him the whole time, and there will no doubt be a werewolf design worthy of lots of consideration when the time comes. For now, though, all we can do is wait for more dispatches from the set, and count the weeks until this one is finally upon us./p pstrongemWolf Man/emhits theaters Oct. 25, 2024./strong/p