“WOLVES” Director David Hayter Mentored by Bryan Singer
Lucas Till, who starred as Alex
Summers aka Havoc in “X-Men: First Class” plays lead role in the upcoming
horror thriller “Wolves” directed by David Hayter (who also wrote the script
for “X-Men,” “X-Men 2” and “Watchmen”) - “Wolves” is Hayter’s directorial debut
that had tinseltown abuzz when he announced of his first directorial job.
“Wolves”
centers on a young man (Till), who transforms into a werewolf and finds himself
falsely accused of murdering his parents. Escaping from the town’s authorities,
and eventually arriving at a small town named Lupine Ridge that has a history
of supernatural happenings and the truth to his curse is finally revealed.
Director
Hayter, in recent interviews notes that in making the film, he was grateful for
being able to undergo Bryan Singer’s training.
“I was lucky enough to be sort of trained and mentored by Bryan Singer,
and he gave me such an insight on what it takes to make a film. Like, what you
need to do to a screenplay to make it “shootable.” So I understood those
things, but I didn’t always agree with what the studio were doing to the
material. So while there things I had to change in my script to accommodate the
rigors of production, I was able to make those decision in ways that I felt
good about and wasn’t forced too many times—I mean, you’re always going to make
compromises—but for the most part, I was able to come up with I thought was the
coolest solution to the problem.”
“Wolves”
was the idea of a producer-friend of Hayter, and after thoughtful
consideration, the director came up with the idea of a hero’s journey within
the werewolves’ realms. “I tried to
think of how I could do this in a way that hadn’t been done before and was
worth doing. Then I kind of came up with this concept of what if it wasn’t a
horror movie? What if it was about him turning into a monster? What if it was
more of a hero’s journey, like you were turning into something and you needed
to gain control of it. What if I could create something that, by the end of it,
people would look at it like a vampire movie and say oh my god, I wish I had
that power. You don’t normally empathize with the werewolf character to the
point where you want to be that, but hopefully with this it’s a little bit
differently presented in a different way. It was a journey of figuring out if I
could do this in a way that was fresh and relatable,” Hayter recalls.
In
a review by Jordan Hoffman posted at
www.nydailynews.com , he wrote that “The whole flick is playful and spirited,
and self-aware enough to ensnare genre-loving young adults.”
Likewise,
Hayter echoes his high hopes on the film, “I hope that people get something new
out of this genre, sub-genre, and I hope that it speaks to them. I hope that
they find it to be really fun, cool and sexy and action packed and just hope
they appreciate the years of work and love that went into it.”
Opening
December 17 in theatres nationwide from Pioneer Films, “Wolves” also stars Jason Momoa who also
appeared in the highly successful “Game of Thrones” TV series as Khal
Drogo.
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