Johnston talks "The Wolfman" Extended Cut
The Wolfman remake director Joe Johnston, recently chatted with BD about the films forthcoming DVD release, which once it opens in cinemas this Friday February 12th...should come around June or July. Johnston made sure to point out that while the movies DVD release will feature 17 minutes of deleted footage, he is referring to it as the "extended" cut of the film, not the "director's cut", which has usually been the label tagged onto dvd releases of films with additional footage thrown in. "Well, there's action sequences, but most of them are in the deleted scenes," he tells BD. "Most of the stuff that we put back in, I think it's 17 minutes longer - a lot of it's stuff up front, but there's also, throughout the film, we basically let the scenes play a little bit longer. There's a little bit of action stuff, but it's mostly bits of scenes that worked, but we cut them out to shorten the film. You know, to get down to our 96 minutes. So it's sort of a variety of stuff. But I won't call it the "director's cut," it's the "extended cut". The release cut needs to be what you refer to as the "director's cut."
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Looks like the version of the film we get in cinemas this Friday will indeed be the version Uni and Johnston actually meant to put out there, which in the long run is very good news. You can read more by visiting BD above. "The Wolfman" meanwhile stars Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik, and Rob Dixon. The pic is inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, and brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother...and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancee, 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 bloodlust 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 Blackmoor. 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.
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