The Wolf Man
Universal Pictures will start filming a new version of its horror classic "The Wolf Man," with Benicio Del Toro playing the title role. Andrew Kevin Walker has begun writing the script. Scott Stuber, Rick Yorn, Mary Parent and Del Toro will produce.

Like the 1941 original that starred Lon Chaney Jr., new pic will be set in Victorian England. Del Toro will play a man who returns from America to his ancestral homeland, gets bitten by a werewolf and begins a new moonlight existence.

Walker has been working on some new twists to the familiar tale, adding several characters and plot points that take advantage of cutting-edge visual effects technology.

Walker will finish his first draft by the Spring '07, and the studio is optimistic that "The Wolf Man" will start shooting early in '07.