Why is Johnston right for the job?
Empire Magazine sat down with Scott Stuber, producer of Universal’s upcoming remake of The Wolfman. It’s three weeks into shooting in the UK and all is going well on the production, he tells the outlet. He also explains why director Joe Johnston got the gig:
The great thing about Joe is that heâ??s such a diverse filmmaker. Whether you look at his family films or something like October Sky, which I thought was a great film. Then Jurassic Park III, he did a great job. That’s really hard, to come in and take a Steven Spielberg franchise and do new and different things, which I thought he did. He really brought a sense of tension and anxiety to that movie. Any good horror movie exists on how much you pull the strings before you let them go. It’s all about how far you can take the audience in tension and anxiety and I think he’d shown the ability to do that as a filmmaker, and then he really got underneath the skin of the script and understood it. His excitement about it was exciting for everyone involved.
Stuber also touches on the inner-turmoil of the Talbot family that we’ll be seeing the film, and the horrors the Wolfman will exact. It’s a solid read, so click here!
Source: Empire
