‘Wolfman’ Back for More Reshoots

The British Film Institute held its Bond Weekender event this past weekend celebrating the late James Bond producer Cubby Brocolli’s 100th birthday.   In attendance was one Vic Armstrong, who worked as the stunt coordinator and second unit director on a number of recent, 007 films.   A source approached Armstrong who had this to day about ‘Wolfman.’

“He was mostly talking his work with the Bond franchise but he mentioned he’d just come from the set of ‘The Wolfman’ at Pinewood Studios shooting some new action scene that was being added to the film.

He was very vague, he didn’t say what capacity (if any?) he was serving on the project but did say the crew were working six day weeks on this sequence.

He described the scene as a fight scene between two werewolves involving a fair amount of CG with them going up the walls and other bits of business, and that they had to marry it up to scenes shot earlier.

He didn’t mention whether [director] Joe Johnston was there or not, he did mention Benicio [del Toro]’s name but wasn’t specific about whether he was involved or not in this shoot.”

So, there you have it.   ‘Wolfman,’ initially set for release in November of 2008 before then director Mark Romanek left the project.   Johnston stepped into the director’s position in February, 2008, and the film’s release date was switched to February 13th, 2009.   It then got pushed back to April 3rd, 2009 before finally having its final (as of now) release date set at November 6th, 2009.

There was no word on whether these new reshoots could potentially push the date again.   We will keep you posted as details come in.

Source: Dark Horizons