As exclusively reported by Deadline, Universal Pictures has acquired the film rights to Robert McCammon’s “debonair Russian werewolf serving as a British secret agent in Word War II” novel The Wolf’s Hour.
Chris Morgan Productions will produce a script written by Bradley and Kevin Marcus, brothers who optioned the rights to the 1989 New York Times bestseller the same year the book came out. Further details are nonexistent, but I’m thrilled! This is the most exciting werewolf news I’ve heard in a long time. The Wolf’s Hour was the first werewolf novel I ever read, and it’s still one of my all-time favourites. Here’s the synopsis from McCammon’s web site, if you haven’t read the book:
He is Michael Gallatin, master spy, lover–and werewolf. Able to change shape with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury, he proved his talents against Rommel in Africa. Now he faces his most delicate, dangerous mission: to unravel the secret Nazi plan known as Iron Fist. From a parachute jump into occupied France to the lush corruption of Berlin, from the arms of a beautiful spy to the cold embrace of a madman’s death machine, Gallatin draws ever closer to the ghastly truth about Iron Fist. But with only hours to D-Day, he is trapped in the Nazis’ web of destruction…
I sincerely hope this gets all the way through development, because this is one film I’d go back to the theatre to see! Thanks again to PDX Werewolf for getting the jump on this.