Wolf Man' director Leigh Whannell has shared 'Wolf Man' was inspired by the "slow-motion nightmare" of him dealing with a loved one battling Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Wolf Man” tells the story of Blake Lovell (Christopher Abbott), his wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and their daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) as they journey from New York City to the wilderness of Oregon to clean out Blake’s father’s house after he passes away.

The writer-director was partially inspired by a close friend who died of ALS, but ultimatley lost a scene involving the affliction: "That's definitely one that hurt when I took it out."

The Invisible Man writer/director Leigh Whannell is back in the saddle, revisiting another of Universal's iconic monsters with his latest film, Wolf Man (get tickets here!). A contemporary spin on werewolf tropes and motifs,

I was so happy with Invisible Man’s ending that I just don’t feel the artistic need to go forward with it,” he tells THR. “The financial need is something different. The studio might look at that and say,

Wolf Man is an upcoming American supernatural horror film directed by Leigh Whannell from a screenplay by the writing teams of Whannell and Corbett Tuck, and Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is a reboot of the 1941 film The Wolf Man.

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When a close friend succumbed to motor neuron disease, Australian filmmaker Leigh Whannell channelled his grief into his latest movie.

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