Walking Dead creator to produce An American Werewolf in London reboot

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

I think it's safe to say that all of us are aware that director John Landis' son and CHRONICLE screenwriter Max Landis had a remake of his father's horror-comedy classic AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON in the works. But with that remake dead as a doornail today we hear that The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has been hired to produce a reboot of John Landis' classic. 

That's all we know at this point int time but stick with us here at AITH and we will pass along word as we hear it. Until then are you down for a remake of – oh, nevermind. 

The original film followed this synopsis:

David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne), two American college students, are backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them. David survives with a bite, but Jack is brutally killed. As David heals in the hospital, he's plagued by violent nightmares of his mutilated friend, who warns David that he is becoming a werewolf. When David discovers the horrible truth, he contemplates committing suicide before the next full moon causes him to transform from man to murderous beast.

John Landis directed the original film from a screenplay he wrote himself when he was only nineteen. George Folsey, Jr. produced the horror-comedy classic which starred David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, and John Woodvine. Universal Pictures unleashed the werewolf motion picture into a theater near your parents back on August 21, 1981. Buy it on Blu-ray HERE.