That was fast. A little more than a month since we first heard that Ryan Gosling will be playing the Wolfman for Universal, the film is moving on to the fast track. The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell is making a deal to take it on, while his Blumhouse collaborators will produce.
Unlike as with his previous film, Whannell will only write the treatment for this one, handing script duties over to Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, who cut their teeth on Orange Is The New Black. No details have been revealed for the story, but it will draw inspiration from the 1941 film.
According to Deadline, Gosling and the studio offered Whannell the first shot at Wolfman, but he decided to pass before Blumhouse boss Jason Blum came aboard and asked him to reconsider. There's no word on a release date just yet, though this will be hurtling into production as soon as possible (with the usual Covid safety caveats, of course).
Whannell has also been working on a TV series spawned from Upgrade, the sci-fi thriller he made before Invisible Man.