Rockers Give Wolf Man His Howl

Joe Johnston has recently been the center of a lot of news recently having been tapped to direct Captain America and also having to answer all the Jurassic Park rumors. So Boxoffice managed to sit down with him and talk about alot of things but mostly about the upcoming remake of The Wolfman.

The most interesting tidbit of info that came out of the talk was pertaining to how they actually created the howl,

 "We had opera singers come in and howl, we had animal impersonators. Gene Simmons and David Lee Roth were pretty near the end of the process. By then we knew what we were looking for, we were homing in on it. And their stuff became the most useful stuff that we did. Like I said, I don't think they would recognize it after what we've done to it because we've digitally processed it and added cool overtones and all that stuff.

We were basically just looking for a wolf howl you'd never heard before. What we realized is that everybody in the audience knows what a wolfman sounds like. Even if it's from their imagination, it's all pretty much the same thing. We just wanted our howl to be the best version of that howl. And I think we've come up with something that's definitely spine-tingling, and at the same time it's familiar enough that the audience is going to recognize it—it's what they expect, with enhancements."

If you would like to read more of what he had to say about The Wolfman, Captain America or Jurassic Park 4, 5 and 6(!) check it out here. Be sure to come back though for more on The Wolf Man as we hear it.