Last year I reviewed Joshua Boulet’s vicious self-released graphic novel The Wrong Night in Texas (which you should totally buy), and because he’s an awesome human being, he did some fan art for Werewolf News. I’m really fucking excited about it. You should look at it. (more…)
Own an original page of “High Moon” artwork
The creators of High Moon are giving fans a chance to obtain original artwork from the Eisner-winning graphic novel. Artist Steve Ellis and writer David Gallaher are selling assorted pages from High Moon through an Etsy shop, and for $100 US (or $200 for an action-packed panel like the one to the right) you can get your claws on an original. Each page is rendered in pencil, brushes & pen and india ink on bristol paper.
And because Steve and David love you just like I do, you can get free shipping by using promo code FULLMOON at checkout.
As of this post there are only 12 pages left, so you better get over there!
Promotional Stills from “Strippers vs. Werewolves”: Muttonchops and Leather Pants Galore
Leave it to Dread Central to get the goods on Strippers vs. Werewolves! Earlier today they posted exclusive promotional stills from the upcoming Jonathan Glendening film. I’ve posted about it before so I’m just going to stop writing and share the three photos that involve werewolves (or rather, one werewolf in particular). You can see the rest at Dread Central. Enjoy!
via Dread Central
Vicious new “Dog Soldiers” Horror T-Shirt from Fright Rags
Original artwork representing the awesomeness of the only film to challenge An American Werewolf in London as the best werewolf film of all time? Of course this needs to clothe your body.
Can you think of any reasons to not purchase, own and wear this new Dog Soldiers t-shirt from horror apparel champs Fright Rags? No? Neither can I. Get it now for $19.95 and do it soon, because Fright Rags shirts have a habit of selling out fast.
“Underworld” Box Set will contain “Animatrix”-style animated short films
It’s been nearly two weeks since San Diego Comic Con and interesting little nuggets of info are still sifting into my inbox. Reader PedestrianWolf wrote to let me (and therefore all of you) know that the upcoming “Underworld” Blu-ray box set (did you know they were making one? Me neither!) will include an Animatrix-style bonus: animated shorts set in the Underworld universe. Underworld / Underworld: Evolution director Len Wiseman was quoted by Bleeding Cool as telling Comic Con panel attendees that the shorts will be “an evolution of these characters in timelines we haven’t seen.”
Which animation studios would you like to see take on the Underworld universe? My first vote is for Studio B Productions. C’mon, you know it would be awesome.
via Bleeding Cool
A Little Vacation
After a pretty lively week, Werewolf News is going back on a bit of a break until August 2nd – I am headed to the heat and humidity of Chicago. I’ve got some cool stuff lined up for when I get back, though, including the introduction of a special guest column that will run for the better part of a year.
See you next Tuesday!
A New Blog by an Old Werewolf, or The Search for Lysandra
I was recently given a link to a new blog called Andronica’s Wolfish Thoughts. The link arrived in an email from Andronica herself, surname Llewellyn, although after reading the blog I suspect her writing might be found under a few other names as well – some of them from antiquity. I’ve just spent the last 30 minutes reading the blog, from oldest post to newest (there are only four at the moment), and I’m honestly flummoxed. The best I can do, I think, is give you the “facts” as presented in her writing.
- Andronica is a three-thousand-year-old female werewolf who has had a number of incarnations and encounters over the years, many of them as or involving significant figures from history.
- She is the current leader of the Sisterhood of the Wolf, the social order under which all female werewolves are united with the goal of preserving the “natural balance” of the world.
- That balance is under constant threat from the Apostates, the violent, ruthless, all-male order of werewolves who serve the Egyptian god Set. They are responsible for most of the world’s wars (battlefields make wonderful banquets).
- Andronica has started blogging in order to increase her profile, making it easier for her to locate (or be located by) her protégé and companion Lysandra, who disappeared during the firebombing of Dresden in 1945.
- Andronica loves The L Word and is the fucking bomb at playing the harpsichord.
In all seriousness, I have no idea who’s writing this blog or where it’s going, but it’s well-researched, well-written (especially the latest post, A Roman Werewolf at Maria Theresia’s Court) and the writer is doing some serious world-building. Take some time to read it through, check out her equally well-crafted Facebook page and follow her on Twitter (if that’s your thing [and it should be]) at @LadyAndronica.
“Lose Your Soul” – help crowd-source an indie werewolf short film
Here’s another crowd-sourced werewolf project I thought was worth sharing: an independently produced short film about werewolves called Lose Your Soul. I’ll let writer/director Ray Fawcett tell you a bit more about it.
This script has been a labor of love for a handful of us, it was written and inspired during a military deployment to Kuwait. We arrive home in August, and want to make this project impact those who have been seeking out a horror film with some depth. It’s a film with issues of separation, letting go and loss much like we have done in the last year of this deployment… Our project is small, but has a lot of heart. We really would like to see it get off the ground, and have its beating heart and passion presented to everyone’s computer screens and local film festivals.
To learn more about Lose Your Soul and help contribute to its production, visit its project page on IndieGoGo.
Plot Details Surface for Universal’s Now-Untitled Direct-to-DVD “Wolfman” Followup
Bloody Disgusting has another one of those exclusives they’re so good at nabbing: Universal’s upcoming direct-to-DVD Wolfman followup has dropped the name Werewolf and is now untitled, and here’s the story screenwriter Michael Tabb is developing:
The new film will take place in a 1901 Romania with the lead character, “Daniel,” caring for his sick mother and attending medical school. Daniel is then recruited to join a group of nomad bounty-hunters tracking down “a disturbing presence” terrorizing the town. Daniel and “Charles” quickly bond and must work together to uncover who this new breed of werwolf is. From what I’m being told, this sequel is very “whodunit”.
This doesn’t sound very “compelling” to me, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and “see”. Dropping the generic Werewolf name is a good move, though.
“Strippers Vs. Werewolves” cast & a cool poster
According to its Facebook page and a post on Fangoria, British horror-comedy Strippers Vs. Werewolves has wrapped and will be released sometime before Spring 2012. The last time I posted about this film I was pretty mean, but I think I had just cause: there were no details on casting or story, and the poster/concept art was… not encouraging. But all of that has changed, and (as I’ve so often done lately) I am retracting some of my shitty comments.
A new poster has been released, which Fangoria describes as “Ali Bastian as stripper Danni, aiming a shotgun at Martin Kemp as werewolf Mickey”. It looks fun, and it’s certainly more evocative and stylistically interesting than previous posters.
On the casting side of this, I’ve spotted two names that I’m kind of excited about: Robert Englund and Alan Ford (bonus points if you can guess which werewolf movie Ford was in without looking at his IMDB page). Also appearing: Barbara Nedeljakova, Sarah Douglas, Adele Silva, Lucy Pinder, Ali Bastian, Steven Berkoff, Nick Nevern, Danica Thrall, Simon Phillips, Billy Murray and Joe Egan.
And what’s the film about, other than the obvious?
When werewolf chief Mickey is accidentally killed in a strip club the girls who work there have until the next full moon before his bloodthirsty wolfpack seek murderous retribution…
Okay, yeah, I’d watch that. Would you?
Yes you would.