Romanek Takes on 'Wolfman' with Del Toro

Music vid director bringing back a classic...

By: Brad Brevet
Published: Thursday, February 8th 2007 at 2:12 AM

So many people refer to the shitty One Hour Photo when they mention Mark Romanek's directorial career, what they fail to mention are the fantastic music videos he directed such as two of the best all time in Madonna's "Bedtime Story" and Nine Inch Nails video for "Closer". Oh yeah and the cool ass "Faint" video by Linkin Park and Fiona Apple's "Criminal," cracked out looking or not you know you all wanted Apple after that one, you girls too. You can check all those out below, but let's get on with the story at hand.

Romaneck has been set as the director for the remake of The Wolfman for Universal Pictures with Benicio del Toro aboard to play the title character. The classic monster story was first made back in 1941 and followed a man as he returns home from the U.S. to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a hairy moonlight existence.

Andrew Walker wrote the screenplay and it is said that the film will keep to the period setting of the 1941 original with a fall start planned for production.

Producer Scott Stuber told The Hollywood Reporter, "Mark has a great love and knowledge of film… He's a great and authentic storyteller. He looks for the truth in the characters, the scenes and in the set design. It's going to be exciting to see what he brings to the horror genre."

Don't forget to check out part of Romaneck's music vid career below and you can even get more info on the cool as hell music video collection of his from Palm Pictures' Director's Label series here.

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