Star of 2022’s The Royal Hotel, Julia Garner will now play opposite Christopher Abbott in Leigh Whannell’s planned take on Wolf Man.
It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for this one to come together, but the pieces finally seem to be falling into place for a new version of Wolf Man at Universal. What’s more, with each new nugget of information, things look more and more promising for the project.
All the way back in 2021, we heard that a new take on Universal’s werewolf character was coming, with Leigh Whannell, director of The Invisible Man in the director’s chair. However, a year later, Ryan Gosling was in the title role and Whannell was out, replaced by regular Gosling collaborator, Derek Cianfrance.
Following that announcement, things went quiet for a long time until last month, we heard that Gosling and Cianfrance had exited the project which had been restored back to Leigh Whannell.
Christopher Abbott is now set to play the title character and now we’re hearing – via The Hollywood Reporter – that the talented Julia Garner is stepping in to co-star alongside him.
Garner is probably best known for her work on Ozark, the thrilling TV drama.However, she’s also been building quite the reputation in a series of disquieting independent dramas such as 2019’s The Assistant and last year’s The Royal Hotel.
Garner now looks set to embark on the next stage of her career as a star of interesting horror projects: she’ll next be seen in Apartment 7A, the prequel to horror classic, Rosemary’s Baby, before appearing in Whannell’s take on the classic Wolf Man character.
We’re very much liking what Whannell seems to be assembling with this project. His 2020 take on The Invisible Man was a compelling watch, and with a young and talented cast in place for this project, we’re very much looking forward to seeing his take on Wolf Man. We’ll bring you more on this one as we hear it.
