By Australian filmmaker Leigh Whannell has teased another classic monster he could be bringing to the big screen.
The “Saw” and “Insidious” co-creator helmed 2020’s well-received take on “The Invisible Man” which reimagined that story as a slightly sci-fi version of a 90s psychological thriller.
Next month he’s delivering “Wolf Man,” a new take on that Universal classic monster which unfolds in the Oregon wilderness and focuses on a family whose father gets ‘infected’ by a lycanthrope.
Speaking to Empire (via CBM) to promote the latter, Whannell says he’d like the opportunity to direct another classic Universal Monster movie – even if only to quell some OCD-style habits:
“My own weird filmmaker OCD is almost like, ‘Well I’ve made two, I have to do three.’ It has to be three. But that’s got more to do with my own neuroses than me actually wanting to do it. In my general life, I’m a pretty strange guy with my habits. I have to leave when it’s an even number, like, 8:20, not 8:19, which is crazy. I’m probably revealing to you how crazy I am. So on that side of my brain, I gotta do a third one to complete the trilogy.”
What would that third one be? If he had a choice, it would be a new take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
As a kid, the idea that they were both the same person was always super interesting to me. That’s up to Universal. If they said, ‘We want you to be the monster guy,’ that would be flattering to me. Like, ‘Wow, they’re entrusting me with this thing that’s so important to them.’ But I’m not gunning for that role.”
Christopher Abbott leads the cast of “Wolf Man” with Sam Jaeger, Ben Prendergast and Benedict Hardie co-starring. The film opens in cinemas January 25th.
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