Feast your eyes on the WOLF MAN baby! Yes, that really is Benicio Del Toro in
Rick Baker makeup (two Oscar-winners for the price of one!), posing menacingly.
What can I say – as with all of Baker’s creations, it’s extremely impressive and pretty much totally masks the real actor underneath it all. Is it a groundbreaking design? No, but I suppose it doesn’t have to be. He’s looks like a “wolf man” and that’s good enough. Now let’s see if the movie around him is up to par – you can’t help but by a little concerned by the director shake-up that went down right before production commenced.
Of course, now Joe Johnston is at the helm, with Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, and Hugo Weaving all in front of the camera. THE WOLF MAN has a February 13, 2009 release date set.
NOTE: You can read an interview with effect wizard Rick Baker HERE.