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The Wolfman (2010) More at IMDbPro »

• Mark Romanek was going to direct but left the project over budget disagreements.
  
  
• Benicio Del Toro's Wolfman make-up took approximately 3 hours to apply and 1 hour to remove.
  
  
• When Rick Baker, who became a makeup artist because of The Wolf Man (1941), heard that this film was being made he called Universal to tell them he had to do the makeup. Universal told him that he was their one and only choice but that they didn't have anyway of making contact with him.
  
  
• This is Benicio Del Toro's second time playing a "wolfman". His very first feature film role was that of a "dog-faced boy" in Pee Wee Herman's Big Top Pee-wee (1988).
  
  
• Ophelia, Horatio and Gertrude are also characters in Hamlet.
  
  
• Was at first slated to hit cinemas in 2007, but difficulties to find a director made this release date impossible. Then a new release date was set for February 2009, then November 2009 and then finally February 2010.
  
  
• The Wolfman's howl in this film was done by Gene Simmons of KISS.
  
  
• This film marks the second time Anthony Hopkins has starred in a remake of one of the classic monster movies, the first being Dracula (1992).
  
  
• The novelization of the script was written by multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry and is scheduled for release from Tor Books in 2010.
  
  
• Robert Rodriguez described the long hair Benicio Del Toro used to play Jackie Boy in Sin City (2005) as "Wolf Man hair".
  
  

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