The Howling To Be Reborn, And Where Have All The Werewolves Gone?
It seems that Joe Dante’sThe Howlingis now up for remaking. Tonight we’ve learned that Joe Nimziki, a former studio marketing executive, will be making his feature film debut withThe Howling: Reborn. Nimziki also wrote the script. The originalHowlingspawned a series of sequels that, from what I can remember, were pretty much all crap. Could this remake be any better?
There’s little else to go on with this project. We know that the studio behind the film is aiming to start production in February for a Haloween release, but I’m not even sure if this is a film we’ll actually be seeing in theaters.
Brendonrecently reportedon a rumor regarding this film’s plot, which I’ll repost here:
According toArrow in the Head, theHowling Rebornreboot is a “Twilight/Gossip Girlwannabe with some Lost Boys thrown in for good measure”. Apparently, there’s an opening scene that riffs on Joe Dante and John Sayles' original before twisting it all up in a dodgy-sounding teen-friendly pretzel of meh.
Sadly, given today’s climate for certain genre material, I wouldn’t be surprised if this rumor was true.
It does make me wonder though, whatever happened to the werewolf film? The last good one I can remember isDog Soldiers, but beyond that we have the oddly giant and mopey werewolves inTwilight: New Moon, and the boring Lycans inUnderworld. There’sThe Wolf Mancoming up, but I’m not entirely show what to expect from that film at this point.
The British supernatural seriesBeing Humanhas some good werewolf material, and we’ll be seeing that remade by SyFy in America soon. But other than that, it seems as if we’ve been culturally infatuated with vampires more so than werewolves for some time. (Even vamp-heavy series likeBuffyonly feature the werewolves as side characters).
Discuss: Are you a fan of The Howling? How does this remake sit with you? Also, where the heck have all the werewolves gone?
