Ryan Gosling’s The Wolfman Finds A New Director

It was solely a few weeks in the past that producer Jason Blum offered a vague status update on Ryan Gosling’s The Wolfman, which was set to be written and directed by The Invisible Man‘s Leigh Whannell, earlier than the Noticed co-creator was compelled to drop out of the challenge resulting from scheduling conflicts.

Nonetheless, Deadline stories {that a} substitute has now been discovered, and it’s a really intriguing alternative who has loads of expertise working with the main man. Derek Cianfrance, who helmed Gosling’s Blue Valentine and The Place Past the Pines, has been confirmed to be taking the reins of The Wolfman.

Cianfrance not too long ago landed an Academy Award nomination for penning awards season favourite Sound of Metallic, which noticed Riz Ahmed land an Oscar nod for Finest Actor, so he is aware of a factor or two about crafting hard-hitting character-driven tales backed by stellar performances, which is why the prospect of him making use of that method to a brand new spin on a horror icon sounds so thrilling.

It was Gosling who initially pitched Common with a contemporary tackle The Wolfman, so that you’d think about he’d have been integral to Cianfrance touchdown the job as soon as Whannell departed. The studio are going all-in on developing a slew of updated monster movies following the success of The Invisible Man, however this one may simply be essentially the most hotly-anticipated of all of them.