idea was that he was going to basically design the whole thing and work out how things were going to be done and that he was going to come and go so that he wasn’t just trapped in, as he has been in the past on things like GREYSTOKE and AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. He was going to kind of come over and do some work and then go back for a couple of weeks and then back again. And he wanted me to be the guy who was there permanently and made sure that everything got built and did the makeup every day and all that sort of stuff. And it worked out pretty good.
FM. Did you have any apprehensions about going to do the Wolfman, knowing that it was one of the most iconic Universal horror flicks? DE. I was sort of horrified. Genuinely, genuinely horrified that Rick had asked me because now I had to work with Rick. We were great friends and I thought what if we fall out? What if we don’t get on? What if he doesn’t like the way I stick rubber to people? What if we screw up the Wolfman? There was a lot to lose by doing the Wolfman and actually despite all the difficulties, and there were many, Rick and I had some good times on that. We enjoyed doing the Wolfman and I think it shows. I think its one of the things that comes across in the movie, you know, better than some of the other aspects.
FM. Now, what was your thought process when trying to approach re-imagining the Wolfman? DE. Well we knew that we wanted it to be a guy in makeup. That was a really important thing. And we thought that there were things that we could augment and do that would be cool with CG. Now, one of our big goals was to overlap our department with the CG department much more than you’ve seen on other movies. And unfortunately we didn’t get to do that in the way that we wanted to do it. But we definitely, definitely wanted it to be a man in makeup. We had Anthony Hopkins and we had Benecio del Toro, who are two of the best actors in the world, and we were like, “Imagine how cool it would be to have them in werewolf
Benicio Wolfs-out to the fullest (left) and gets a little inspiration from a certain monster magazine as Mr. Elsey works his makeup magic.
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