“X-MEN” Beast Designer Crafts Original Creatures in “WOLVES”
Lucas Till who played Alex Summers aka Havoc in
“X-Men” movies once again gears up for a preternatural character in his latest
horror thriller film, “Wolves.”
“X-Men’s”
(First Class) Beast creator Dave Elsey joins Till in the production unit of
“Wolves” who designed the original wolf creatures in the movie. Directed and written by David Hayter (who
also co-penned blockbusters such as “X-Men 2,” “Watchmen” and “The Scorpion
King”), the movie is a contemporary take on classic monsters.
“Wolves”
finds popular high school student Cayden Richards (Till) waking from a horrific
nightmare, only to realize that he's living it – a football star with a bright
future and the hottest girlfriend in campus, but with one glitch – he’s a
werewolf. Learning the hard way of his
true identity, he changed into something vicious one night and attached his
parents and girlfriend. Frightened by
this realization, Richards runs away from town and finds himself in Lupine
Ridge, a town where he is about to find answers on his newfound strength and
identity.
Hayter recalls on making the movie,
“We did years of sketches, designs. It
took me a long time to refine what I wanted out of it. I looked at pretty much
every werewolf movie ever made. I said okay, where are the places, where are
the traps in this creature. Big pointed ears that stick straight up kind of
look like elf ears to me. A long snout looks like a big nose, and the long
fingernails can look like those of a transvestite. If you look, you’ll see the
ears on my wolves, which were made by Academy award winning master monster
creators. The ears go back instead of up. They’re angled back, which gives the
wolf a sleeker look, but it also calls to mind when a wolf is angry or a dog is
angry, their ears flatten back against their skull and gives them a more
threatening look. And then the claws, instead of long, straight claws they’re
curved. They’re hooked, like wolf claws are so that they can dig into your skin
and hold you. So there were a number of ways that we went about the design, and
then we also were very careful not to put too much stuff across the actor’s
face, so that the prosthetic is glued down to the face where the face is going
to move, so it allows them to act or to emote in a way that is not obstructed
by all the latex and fur. t was really a matter of trying to discover what
wolves are all about rather than classic movie werewolves. Let’s say that
actual wolves are quiet and beautiful and sleek and intelligent. They’re not
crazy, out-of-control monsters like they’re usually portrayed, so that helped
out a lot.”
Watch the "Wolves" Official trailer here:
Watch the "Wolves" Official trailer here:
“Wolves” will open in cinemas
nationwide on December 17 (from Pioneer Films).
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