The moon isn’t full enough for director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man (2025) remake to hit its original prime Halloween release date of Oct. 25, 2024. The Hollywood Reporter brought the news Friday that the film will instead move to Jan. 17, 2025, a three-month delay.

Universal Pictures, the studio producing the film with Blumhouse, set the January date for Wolf Man while taking another Blumhouse release, The Woman in the Yard, starring Danielle Deadwyler, off the calendar. The studio will announce a new date for the film at a later date.

The revamped Wolf Man project originated in 2020, and it’s been a hotly anticipated horror release ever since. Whannel had directed The Invisible Man (2020), another modern retelling of a classic Universal monster story, before becoming involved in the development of Wolf Man.

A lot has changed in the film’s production in the last few years. Most notably, Ryan Gosling held the starring role after he helped pitch the movie at Universal. Although he was replaced in December 2023 by Christopher Abbott, Gosling remains attached to the project as an executive producer.

Abbott is starring in the film alongside Julia Garner, and both performers have proven to be rising talents in the industry. Abbott most recently held a supporting role in the Academy Award-winning Poor Things (2023) by director Yorgos Lanthimos. Garner is a three-time Emmy Award winner for her work on Netflix’s Ozark (2017-2022).

Whether Wolf Man will tie into Whannel’s previous monster film is unclear, but it is being viewed and described as the next film in Universal’s revamped monsterverse. If the studio does move forward with some sort of shared universe, it will be their second modern attempt after failing with the Dark Universe and The Mummy (2017) nearly ten years ago.

Update Courtesy of Evan Miller

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