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The remake of The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro, is shaping up to be one of the better blockbusters of 2009. Producer Scott Stuber has been talking to Empire (via) and he clearly understands exactly why the classic monsters were so successful in tbe first place.

We really want to stick to the physical stuff. So much of what we’re trying to accomplish is that when Benicio is the wolf, you really know it’s Benicio Del Toro and you have the eyes and the emotion of what he is. That way you don’t disassociate your emotion and you realise that the person, Lawrence Talbot, who you’ve got to know in the daytime is still Lawrence Talbot at night. That way you’re empathetic towards him, you’re angry towards him, you feel for him. You wouldn’t get that with a completely CG creature who you disassociate from Benicio Del Toro. There will inevitably be some CG work to help with some of the transformation, but it’s a Rick Baker-centric film and that’s what we wanted from the get-go.

There’s a lot more, including the confirmation that the new version of the film will be set in the late 1880s to 1890 and that there are plans to resurrect other Universal monsters.

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