Wolf Man, the new film starring Poor Things’ Christopher Abbott, has had a delay to its release date.
Universal’s creature feature, which is being directed by Leigh Whannell, will see Abbott star as a man whose family is being stalked by a dangerous predator.
The film has suffered numerous production delays, and now The Hollywood Reporter has stated that the release has been pushed back by three months to January 17, 2025.
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Whannell, who had previously directed Upgrade and The Invisible Man, will also pen the screenplay, with Julia Garner joining Abbott in the lead role. Ryan Gosling was previously attached to the project.
Blumhouse Productions has also announced that The Woman in the Yard has been removed from the calendar. The project had previously been scheduled to be released on January 10, 2025, and the company plans to announce a new date at a later time.
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Abbott starred as Alfie Blessington in Poor Things, which followed Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) as she embarked on a journey of self-discovery and liberation after she was resurrected by a scientist (Willem Dafoe).
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Stone subsequently won her second Academy Award for her performance in the film, which was directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, and defended the film’s themes amid criticism that the depiction of Bella’s journey was exploitative and sexist.
“If it helps, as the person who played it and produced it, I didn't see her as a child in any of those scenes,” she explained, with Lanthimos adding: “If you take a film that literally, where you start discussing it in terms of the brain of a child, then you're kind of missing the point of storytelling in general.”
Wolf Man is scheduled to be released on January 17, 2025.
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Reporter, Digital Spy George is a freelance writer who specialises in Movies and TV. After graduating with a degree in Film Studies and Journalism from De Montfort University, in which he analysed the early works of Richard Linklater for his dissertation, he wrote for several websites for GRV Media. His film tastes vary from blockbusters like Mission: Impossible and John Wick to international directors such as Paolo Sorrentino and Hirokazu Kore-eda, and has attended both the London and Berlin film festivals.
