Werewolf Wednesday Digest – May 2012, Part 1

2012-05-16

It’s been a few weeks since my last celebration of Werewolf Wednesday, but when I woke up in my Boston hotel room this morning, I had this inspirational image by Tandye in my inbox, so I knew the time was right. Being married to a talented artist who loves werewolves as much as I do is what you might call “an optimal scenario” (and she’s available for commissions on DA & FA). Now that Tandye’s set things in motion, let’s do this. I’m…
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Rob Zombie ruins my day, officially nixes “Werewolf Women of the S.S.” feature-length project

2012-05-15

I saw this on the Werewolves.com Twitter feed and it wrecked my morning. Rob Zombie just talked to Screen Crush about his current film project, The Lords of Salem, and what he won’t be working on next: a feature-length version of the Grindhouse faux-trailer Werewolf Women of the S.S., which he says was …just what it was, it was a fake trailer for a Quentin Tarantino movie. That’s all it was ever suppose to be, it was never going to be a full movie….
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Werewolf News Favourite Graphic Novel “Feeding Ground” Film Rights Optioned

2012-05-12

The Hollywood Reporter says that one of my all-time favourite graphic novels, 2011′s scorching Feeding Ground, has been optioned by veteran producer Edward R. Pressman.

Practical Creature FX Are Awesome! Watch “Underworld: Awakening – Building a Better Lycan”

2012-05-11

I’ve always liked the Underworld werewolf aesthetic, which was originally developed and executed by Patrick Tatopoulos & crew. The Lycans are the polar opposite of the Twilight / True Blood “fluff-wolves” I detest – they’re big, hairy, and monstrous in a way that’s fantastically bestial. The task of bringing these big guys to life for Underworld: Awakening fell to the folks at MastersFX (based in the Vancouver area, which gives me fanboy “cool stuff in close proximity” paroxysms). Todd Masters and his staff had to evolve Tatopoulos’s…
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Full Moon Features: The Reawakening of the Underworld series

2012-05-05

Well, it was bound to happen sometime. Four movies into the Underworld series, I finally broke down and saw one of the things in theaters. It was back in February when I was joined by three other gentlemen for a 5:10 showing of the 3-D version of Underworld: Awakening (for some reason the 2-D version wasn’t showing at all in my town), and it’s pretty safe to say we all got precisely the movie we were expecting. I don’t know…
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“Freeborn” Director Anthony Brownrigg shares 2005 script, asks for werewolf fan input

2012-04-24

As mentioned earlier this year, fan-driven werewolf film Freeborn is coming back to life after thousands of years (in Internet time) of dormancy. As part of that resurrection, writer / director Anthony Brownrigg has shared the 2005 version of the script, and is soliciting commentary from the werewolf fan community. The original 2005 script in today’s market has some things that have now been done. (cough cough).. even though we were going to do it first. However.. the general storyline will remain, and…
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Behind-the-Scenes Photos from Cabin in the Woods [partial spoiler]

2012-04-20

The fact that I’m even posting about Cabin in the Woods is a spoiler in itself, but the fact that I’ve said “spoiler” three times already and you’re still reading means you’ve already seen it, you haven’t seen it and don’t care, or you have poor reading comprehension skills. In any event, Werewolf News reader Nyetwerke sent in a link to an Ain’t It Cool News interview with CITW director Drew Goddard, and there are some photos in there that I…
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Are you an “ultimate werewolf fan”? Prove it and maybe you’ll get to be on TV

2012-04-19

2012-04-20: I’ve edited this post way down at the request of the production company involved. Apparently I said was more than I was supposed to. Here’s what I’ve been told it’s okay to share: A television production company in Los Angeles is currently trying to cast for a show dealing with Werewolves in the U.S. They are looking for an “ultimate werewolf fan”, at least 20 years old or older, that is a fanatic of werewolves movies, games, etc. The…
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Werewolf Wednesday Digest – April 2012, Part 2

2012-04-18

Hey, what do you know, it’s Werewolf Wednesday again! Put on your special bib and suck the marrow out of these bloody tidbits. A week or two ago, I was asked to provide a Twitter signal boost for a search being undertaken to identify this handsome devil. A number of people came to our collective rescue and identified the creature as a were-hyena (or werewolf) created by Spectral Motion for an ultimately deleted scene from Blade: Trinity. Not content to…
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Full Moon Features: Witnessing the Rise of the Lycans

2012-04-05

Every three years — almost like clockwork, it seems — we get another installment in the Underworld series. (Which I guess means we’re in for Underworld: Here Comes Another One come January 2015.) Keeping to that schedule, the first month of 2009 brought us a prequel, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which temporarily set aside the present-day storyline in order to delve into the past to explore where the whole Vampire/Lycan war began. Directed by Patrick Tatopoulos, who designed the…
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