Werewolf By Night

[sabertooth]

There making a movie based off the comic....YES ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Marcus]

Good. Look forward to finding out more about it.

[dedwyre]

Didn't they announce this movie in, like, 2001? I figured they'd given up.

Source?

[sabertooth]

They annouced it in 07.

[dedwyre]

"They" who? Where? When? Back up your claims with evidence.

[ArcLight]

Every time a comic book movie is a hit, someone from one of the companies announces that pretty much every character they have in the stable is going to be made into a movie. Until casting is announced and filming starts it pretty much means nothing.

(remembers when "they" talked about the upcoming Spider-Man movie back in the 80s after Batman came out)

[Marcus]

yes, but the other film company that owned the film rights for the spiderman previous two movies wouldn't release them, so it was unable to be made.

[Nyctivoe]

Would this be based on the original comic or the reload from a few years back?

[dedwyre]

IF they ever make a movie based on the character, I predict it will be more like the reload, at least in terms of atmosphere. I've been reading the original series recently, and while it's fun, it really wouldn't translate into a serious movie for modern times.

What other differences did the original and the reload have? I don't know if Marvel even acknowledges the reload anymore; I don't believe it was ever collected as a graphic novel, but whenever they use the character these days, they can't seem to decide what his wolf form should look like.

[Nyctivoe]

I don't recall much about the reload, having only read 3 issues back when it first came out. The werewolf I recall as being muscular and furry, with digitigrade legs but a humanlike face. And as a human he looked like Kurt Cobain. And I think when he transformed he saw visions of hell, or something.

[dedwyre]

Yes, and he was in the sewers a lot, and Ghost Rider had a cameo. I think I have the last issue, or something close to it, where he goes into a confessional booth as the werewolf and freaks out the priest. That might make more sense if I could read the whole series.

[Nyctivoe]

I rummaged through my stuff and found one issue! He goes into a tunnel of love and has some sort of hallucination where he's stuck in half-wolf form and ends up as an old man (old wolf?) living in the swamps of Louisiana, where he hunts alligators and rather improbably has developed a thick Cajun accent. Very weird. The art's well-done in that scratchy Claremont style, though, I'll give it that.

[dedwyre]

I don't remember any of that, so I obviously missed the early issues.

I'm disappointed that they haven't followed up on the character's last appearance (not counting Moon Knight) where he helped a girl beat up/kill these people who were trying to kill her for being a werewolf, and he seemingly got her to accept what she was, then they drove off on a motorcycle. It seemed like the start of a story, but it was just in Legion of Monsters, and none of the other stories from that short series of one-shots seems to have led to anything else.

By the way, I like your sig picture.

[Nyctivoe]

Heh, thanks. It's a zoo sign from Holland or somewhere. It's supposed to be warning you not to tempt the bears with your small child, but the artist appears to be unfamiliar with what bears actually look like . . . or the bears there have opposable thumbs.

[dedwyre]

Yeah, throw a pointy ear shape on top of its head, and you have a werewolf. I gotta go to Holland. You know what they say: "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much."