Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has set its Wolfman project on a fast track to production.
Leigh Whannell is negotiating to direct Ryan Gosling in the lead role, and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse has boarded the picture to be producer along with Gosling.
Blumhouse just teamed with Whannell on the Elizabeth Moss-starrer The Invisible Man, a $7 million budget film that was a win for Universal’s Classic Movie Monsters initiative, grossing $124 million worldwide.Whannell will also be writing the treatment for the film, based on an original idea of his own and inspired by the 1941 classic.
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