The first look at “Wolf Man” has arrived as writer and director Leigh Whannell looks to follow up his surprise hit “The Invisible Man” with another Universal monster…
“It sounded like an animal but I swear to God, it was standing on two feet.”
That’s the teaser for the new film “Wolf Man” from writer and director Leigh Whannell in the latest update to the Universal monster series with this creature feature also coming from Blumhouse. The film is due out January 17, 2025.
The new film stars three time Emmy winner Julia Garner alongside Christopher Abbott (“Poor Things”), Sam Jaeger (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Ben Prendergast (“The Sojourn Audio Drama”), Benedict Hardie (“The Invisible Man”) and young newcomer Matilda Firth.
Here’s the synopsis for “Wolf Man”:
“Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Garner), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Firth).
“But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.”
Whannell co-wrote the script for “Wolf Man” alongside Corbett Tuck, Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo.
Of course, Whannell is perhaps best known for co-creating the “Saw” franchise alongside longtime collaborator and college pal James Wan before they both launched successful careers in Hollywood. Whannell was also behind the 2020 film “The Invisible Man” starring Elisabeth Moss, which was a surprise hit after that movie landed in theaters just before the global pandemic essentially shut everything down.
Now Whannell is taking a stab at another classic Universal monster with “Wolf Man.”
Check out the new trailer and get ready for the film to be unleashed into theaters on January 17, 2025.
