• How many years has this been in the making?

• Forget all that; Tony Hopkins looks so much like ol' McDowell that I've decided to spend the rest of the weekend staring at this image while putting myself under hypnosis--reverse the aging of this Hopkins and see how A Clockwork Orange would have played out with him instead.

• This looks great. Love me some Anthony Hopkins monster movie. And Werewolves. Love 'em. Also, a Conchords Werewolf movie would be amazing.

• I haven't heard anything more about this than the trailer but it looks good. I dig the early scientific-looking aspect. I'm looking forward to see this movie now. I heard that the revamp of the Universal Movie Monsters started with Sommers the Mummy and now that he's run that into the ground (and Van Helsing too) I guess they have to move onto something else.

• Looking good. I don't think it hurts dropping the trailer the same day the Avatar trailer is dropping, though. When you're finished watching the Avatar trailer, it's not really hard og difficult watching the wolfman trailer right after, is it?

• @TrapJaw See if you can remember this one: a book with a purple cover and an ugly picture of John Talbot Wolf Man that supposedly gave you instructions on becoming a werewolf (without, you know, getting bitten by one). Involved drawing two circles on the ground but not getting into the smaller center circle.

• I'm there whenever they finally decide to release this, Avatar be damned. I could care less about a bunch of goofy blue aliens in 3D. Gimme a werewolf that slaughters and dismembers people like a giant sized paper shredder any old day over Cameron's pet project. Is it just me or does this Wolfman look like a homage to Oliver Reed's lycanthrope in Hammer's Curse of the Werewolf? I dig it regardless. Rob, if you want to see a bunch of monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula hanging out with the Wolfman, check out the trailer for House of the Wolfman. I'm surprised no one has mentioned that yet. It's a straight up homage to the classic Universal Monster movies of the 30's and 40's. I'm not sure if it'll be released to theaters (highly doubtful) but I'll be all over the dvd release just for nostalgia's sake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1G9NdiRreY

• Does anyone else think Del Toro bears an uncanny resemblance to Jermaine from Flight of the Conchords? And does anyone else think this movie would be 10x better if in fact it was Jermaine as the titular werewolf?

• I want to see this way more than Avatar.

• What is with all the hate on American Werewolf in Paris? I thought it and Werewolf in London were awesome movies. I also think that this movie looks pretty good. This is the first I'd heard of it. I'm a sucker for werewolf/vampire movies (excluding Twilight of course).

• I heard Hugo say just a couple words and I was excited. I love monster movies and this one looks like it'll be good.

• looks great. more excited for this than avatar and emily blunt, mmmmmmmmmmm

• The one werewolf thing reminded me of a book I read recently which I thought would make a great movie, bestial. Basically the concept is that almost everybody becomes a werewolf, except for a few people who are immune. So it's basically a couple people trying to hide from hundreds or even thousands of them at night. And during the day trying to keep safe from people driven a bit mad by their actions the night before. Really, a surprisingly fun book.

• This was much better than Cameron's "Crapitar". Monster Squad: The only REAL on is from 1976! About time we got a decent Werewolf movie.

• if universal is going to start a running series of re-makes of the classic monster movies then count me in...

• &#64;MAttK I used to spend waaay too much time in the horror movie & occult sections of the library as a little kid. I loved those Crestwood books myself and I checked out <I>The Book of Werewolves</I> by Sabine Baring-Gould so many times that the librarian finally let me buy the book for a dollar (back when a dollar was a big deal to a seven-year-old).

• My ass will be parked in the theater come 2-12-10. The Wolfman was my favorite monster when I was a little kid and this new version looks to be pretty true to the original.

• &#64;Plaidstallions Thanks a lot! Man, those were awesome books for a kid back in the 70s and 80s. They made it easy to fill my summer reading quota.

• Talk about treading over old ground. Sorry, we've seen this story too many times. And I don't think Del Toro can hold up an entire movie. But who knows. I just came from seeing District 9.

• Actually, lots of people are saying this trailer is better than Avatar's... and I'm one of them.

• MattK- Those books were by Crestwood and I still take them out of the library occasionally...

• Wolfman's attached to Basterds... it was either today or tomorrow that it'd get out, and people need something to watch when Avatar crashes are rife.

• I, too, saw Monster Squad but at least it's been long enough that it wouldn't ring through my head anymore when I saw this. I have to admit that the 'only one werewolf' thing seems about right though. Dog Soldiers was fun, with a whole pack of them, but I'd happily give this a chance if it's a decent movie.

• Hearing about this during casting and filming I could only think it sounded like a bad idea. Trailer honestly has me a bit more excited than Avatar's trailer, to be honest.

• I love werewolves, always have (except the Werewolf in Paris kind). I am seeing this no matter what. Yeah it's been postponed twiceso it probably sucks. Seeing it anyway. I have faith in what Mark Romanek left behind. It really bums me out that he chose to leave the movie. Maybe Universal will give him the budget he wanted on an Invisible Man remake? A girl can dream, right? No Hollow Man invisible rape though, that's too stupid for anyone to watch.

• Is it weird that I can't see Hugo Weaving anymore without imagining a cross between Elrond and Agent Smith? It's like he's dual-typecast or something.

• MattK, I totally did the same thing, and Wolf Man was my favorite as well, along with Creature from the Black Lagoon.

• This looks pretty awesome.

• This is exciting. I like this movie! Best part of it all? NO VAMPIRES!!!!!

• Growing up, I used to check out these oranga-backed books from the 1970s from the library that gave brief synopses of Universal Monster flicks (and Godzilla, who was part of Toho) and gave summaries of the legends behind them and later films that either continued the story or took new takes on them (usually the Hammer films). I would DEVOUR the information long before I ever saw the films, and Wolf Man was my favorite. This looks freaking sweet, and no visual masturbation from Cameron could make me any less excited or anticipate this film any less than how this trailer has done. And yes, I've seen Monster Squad. Wolf Man can keep his nards; John Talbot has freakin' STONES.

• Looks kind of like "Sleepy Hollow" meets "Brahm Stoker's Dracula". Especially since it has Sir Anthony Hopkins (in another Van Helsing-esque role). My interest is piqued. The only thing is I've yet to really see a good Werewolf in movies. They either look too wolf-like, or too man-like. Underworld was pretty close, and sadly so was Van Helsing. This looks more man-like to me, but it also looks like it's trying to be faithful to the old Universal original, while amping up the tension and drama. So that works for me. I just keep waiting for werewolves in movies to match the awesome artwork that fantasy artists have made already. PS - Coincidentally, I just saw Monster Squad for the first time last night.

• I think my enjoyment of this movie rests entirely upon the transformation. If they do the American Werewolf in Paris style, knee-bending-backwards thing, i will exit the movie immediately.

• Looks pretty good, actually.

• Yep, it's monster squad that did it for me as well. It'd take a lot for me to not hear "Wolfman's got nards!" through the entire movie.

• Wolfman's got nards!

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