After false starts and missed opportunities with films like “Black Widow” and “Watchmen” fanboy fave screenwriter David Hayter (“X2,” “Watchmen”) is finally set to make his directorial debut with the supernatural drama “Wolves.”
The modestly budgeted $18 million dollar film is described by Hayter as “’Twilight’ with a bit more bite to it, and without abstinence.” As you might have guessed, the film is about werewolves, and Hayter has “de-constructed past werewolf films, took out the mythology that haunted the screen adaptations, and found a way to make it a metaphor for a teen maturing sexually into adulthood, at the age when young men howl at the moon.” Essentially it sounds like yet another creatures-with-feelings film but with more sex and blood.
Looking to start filming in July, the film previously had Thomas Dekker and Ray Stevenson attached to the film before funding dried up. No word yet if they will be back in the incarnation that’s currently found backing with different producers/distributors.