Max Landis' American Werewolf In London Detailed Rundown
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Talked to these guys on a podcast about the American Werewolf in London I wrote for Universal back in the day. I'll always be a little sad I didn't get to make this movie, and that you didn't get to see how crazy it really got. Oh, and it was supposed to be in IMAX. FULL PODCAST FOUND HERE:
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I really love Max's writing. I just finished season one of Dirk Gently, and it blew my mind.
Godamn! Props to you Max! I could practically see these scenes in my head as you described them! It would have been a perfect remake. It maintains the vibe that makes the original so unique and so, so hard to recreate. Sounds like a perfect combination of your father's work and yours.
Reimagining the wolf attack with it silhouetted against the truck lights is badass. We need this movie now!
Everything about your American werewolf seems great! The greatest werewolf movie ever in a lot of peoples opinion, so to actually be able to see any of what you had for your remake is honestly a gift! Thank you Max! And of course to your father for the original masterpiece!
I watched this podcast yesterday, absolutely loved it.
Where'd you watch it? Can't find it on YT
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American Werewolf in London
is my all time favorite horror film.
When I heard a few years back that you were working on a script I was very excited.
Then nothing happened,
and the memory of that script got lost in a chaotic shuffle of movies that were promised but never came to be.
Now I'm reminded of it and I'm sad all over again.
I'd honestly love to just be able to read the script.
Some of my favorite movies are scripts that were never filmed.
This could have been one of those rare beautiful times when a remake would have been just as good, maybe even better than original. We really were robbed, happy some details on it have finally got out in your trademark energetic, picture the visual style
Until today, I naively thought this movie could still be in the making. With this video, I have a 18 minutes long trailer that happens to be the next best thing.
Thanks for that!
I have wanted you to talk about this for so long! Admittedly, I don't catch every one of your videos, but I was so pumped when I originally heard that you were involved in this project- sucks so much to hear it won't see the light of day.
Max, any plan when you might drop part II of Hellbound? Had so much fun reading it out loud for friends and doing voices etc... such a fun amount of fan service, it's so entertaining...
Sorry, don't mean to derail from your American Werewolf video here, which I am going to continue watching now (watched the old one in late fall for the first time since I was a teenager, it holds up incredibly well imo).
It’s such a shame this movie hasn’t been made. I love this pitch.
He's turned a black comedy tragedy into an absurd, buffoonish millennial buddy comedy film with a completely different tone that might as well just have been a different concept.
@@Jezurielleagree big time. He turned it into an unfunny comedy. Comedy was apart of the original for sure but it was definitely horror first. All of the bits he suggested are terrible.
Just wanna say that I just watched Bad Moon (1996) literally last night and I think it might be the most underrated werewolf movie ever made. Insanely badass 80 minute film that only hardcore horror fans seem to know about.
Michael Pare was great in that. I really enjoyed Bad Moon.
Is this the one with the German Shepard dog and family ?
I hope and pray that he makes this movie it to begin with a father making a movie in years later his son doing a remake and it actually sounds better than the original I'm sorry for John Landis I love him he is the greatest werewolf movie maker of all time every director should bow down to this man as a king of horror and his son just spitting fire telling us these lines of what what he would do in a remake and it sounds so awesome so I really hope we get this
Was just rewatching the Kryptonian epic playlist.
Always interested in hearing your process and thoughts on creativity.
Really would of been cool to see this movie and honour his fathers legacy. I’m sure Max’s script is amazing but I won’t lie not sure if I see him directing this one. I honestly see Edgar Wright directing this one and Max as a Co writer, I just think Edgar would be the perfect guy to do it plus he is a huge fan on the original.
I just watched the original (for the first time) so that I could watch this. Movie was great. Remake sounds pretty good too.
This is awesome. Thank you!
Interesting that your remake would reference Before Sunrise/Julie Delpy since she's the lead actress in American Werewolf in Paris. Coincidence?!
This sounds awesome I wished this happened I would have loved to see the werewolf apocalypse sequel maybe even expanding and introducing other monsters in that world.
A Max Landis AWIL sounds a whole lot better as a Netflix tv series📺🤔
You're one of the RUclipsrs I full screen, kick back, and just listen to your rambling because it's so enjoyable. It says on IMDB that you have an idea for a Pepe Le Pew movie? I remember when you talked about Pepe Le Pew, but what's your idea for a Pepe Le Pew movie?
Im probably one of few people who really like american werewolf in Paris. Julie delpy was so good in it playing the daughter of david and the nurse it’s probably the main reason why i love it so much and the fact that you found a way to get her in this version of werewolf in london with the before sunrise idea is so cool to me. Did you do that as a way of giving her a kind recognition because of her involvement in the franchise or was it just coincidence? Maybe an unconscious one?
Either way to see her in this version too was one of the best parts of this pitch. The whole thing would of been so damn good to see get made.
Dude this is awesome. I only looked you up to watch that old wrestling video again. I'm glad your making videos again. I think American Ultra is awesome and after the RLM The American Ultra that could of been, would be amazing.
I think a prequel will be cool 👍🏼
Max would literally be the ideal cellmate in prison, he's one of the best story tellers, beyond creative, and under utilized.
I love werewolf stories and I love Max's stories. The fact that we didn't get this is actually painful.
This needs to be made
Damn man this is genius. Such a great fucking ending!
i am livid that we never got this movie. goddamnit hollywood
If I had a production company I'd buy it right away. Hell I'd really want to be in it
Nah man cocaine bear gonna take the Oscar this year
That sounds awesome. The post credits thing runs right up to the edge of “too much” but if you think about it its insanely lucky no randoms were bitten in the circus rampage in the first one. Makes sense to me this thing would have attacked at least a few people.
An American werewolf has always been one of my favourites ❤
I would love to see this! Are you able to make this still? or a version with enough changes for it to be legal? (I have literally no knowledge of how that works)
What has to be done, or can be done, to get this movie out? Is there someone we can write to to get this released, like some kind of fan petition thing?
Nope, he has been blackballed out of Hollywood unfortunately.
@Jake Jutras does Hollywood need to be involved, though?
Hollywood just needs to see random online movies with amazing story lines and b-movie aesthetics turned cult classic that could be giving them money.
Babe wake up new Uptomyknees just dropped!
Hi! Long time fan, first time caller... Um, very good video, but... Who is this Max Landis guy?
Dont fk with the iconic scene where they wonder off the path your whole idea from the idiot in pub to the werewolf knocking van over sounds terrible glad its not happening now.
that ending was fucking peak, shame we might not see It tho. any hopes it gets made ?
FUCKING RELEASE THIS HOLLYWOOD
I actually love this!!!
Cool that you would have used "Blue Moon" again in the credits! Would you still have taken "Can't Find the Moonlight" for the opening? Which other songs were there? Bruno Mars' "Moonshine"? Did you write Amy Winehouse's "Back in Black" somewhere, like the transformation scene?
Can't Fight The Moonlight and Back To Black are actually both in the script, a LOT!!! How did you know that? Amy Winehouse's Back To Black features in both the opening and the ending of the script.
Did they replace songs from the original or would you have featured them during new moments? Which song plays during the transformation scene?
You mentioned the Coyote Ugly song during your 37 livestream and Back in Black was in your Insta story when you planned to release the script. Maybe you'll be able to one day without getting sued.
Hey Max, whatever did you think about the Werewolf by Night film??
Im so upset this movie never came to be :'(
HELL TO THE YES. Gimme a gimme
Could it not be turned into a TV series?
Cocaine Bear is what the kids want nowadays and is a fantastic movie. American Werewolf in London is a Masterwork and still is in 2023 but it's had its day and should be left that way and not over explained or fleshed out.
People didn’t want lord of the rings adapted into a movie. People didn’t want invasion of the body snatchers to be remade in the 70s. Movies are just media, there’s always room for reinvention and re-mixing, and honestly if cocaine bear, which looks unbelievably cheap regardless of how good it might be, is a high watermark it’s the system that has the problem, not the artists.
@@Uptomyknees I agree that all Art can be reinterpreted and re-examined across generational, societal and cultural changes.
Cocaine Bear is a re-imagining of an actual event, taking it to an extreme place which is why viewers had such a positive reaction to its trailer and its projected to open with a $17 million dollar weekend.
it'd be great to read your interpretation of "An American Werewolf in London" but i guess the point i was making is that the film will survive in its original form for future generations to discover for the first time whether its ever re-made or not.
As you obviously know, John Landis did write a sequel Script to "An American Werewolf in London" which has never been released for public consumption to my knowledge. Now you adapting that script would really excite me and fans of the original film as we know you'd bring your own artistic sensibilities to his original vision of how the sequel should have played out.
For instance, the way Screenwriter Eric Heisserer approached The Thing (2011) is how i personally think an original masterwork should be explored. Not just remaking but taking the opening of that Original as its end point and writing a prequel for it was a brilliant idea. Unfortunately the finished film didn't deliver but i'll always give it credit for trying to explore the world of The Thing without re-writing the rules of the original work.
Tight cheers man
I wish I could see this movie
keep the same werewolf design. prosthetic and more detail into the curse its self and we have a deal
Holy shit. That was so dope. Always admired and love your passion Max. ❤️ much love friend
IMAX LANDIS!
Where can I find the full show
The year is 2045.
London has been over run with werewolves.
What a shame, it sounds like a great idea
Leak the damn thing already
@uptomyknees It sucks that Universal is preventing you from releasing the screenplay. Ever just make a new werewolf movie taking cues or notes from this?
It's good but it's no American Werewolf In Paris though, is it? 😋😋😋
I weep knowning I will never see this movie
Hey guys what podcast is this??
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Why not just make it with action figures or sock puppets? No seriously, the movie might be much better with a werewolf puppet!
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@@Uptomyknees swag. Straight swag
nepotism at it's worst.
Why does the werewolf survive jumping off a building, breaking all of his bones, but regular old police bullets take him down??
DAVID survives the fall. It's a four story fall; he's all fucked up, but then the transformation to the werewolf basically resets him. The wolf the cannot survive being pincushioned by MP5s.
Ahh, so his survival of the jump was coincidental. Like, if the werewolf jumped from a similar...well, probably greater height, it would die.
Like if the werewolf jumped off the Burj Khalifa.
..unless he had a base rig.
...OH SHIT, WEREWOLF IN A SQUIRREL SUIT!!
@@ZombifiedGuitarist The wolf probably couldn't have eaten that fall either, yeah, without injury. But my werewolf transformation basically turns you into a big embryo and resets you from your stem cells so it makes sense, in the way that it doesn't make sense.
@@Uptomyknees Just like a werewolf in a squirrel suit!! XD
The fucking GOAT I don’t give a shit what anyone says. Every idea is revolutionary.
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It's not just British people who "hate Americans" it's a worldwide thing. His version of the film sounds terrible, his daddy already made a good version of it, we don't need to see his son's cringe worthy version of the film.👍
The original film is perfect. It doesn't need a remake. The story is perfectly streamlined and straight to the point. Max's version sounds like the ADHD edition. Too many deviations to focus on things that don't add or enhance the story in any way. Like that younger ginger character he talks about, sounds annoying and distracting. And that's the problem, this need to give more screen time or purpose to ideas that disrupt the flow of the story.
Also, why does Max hate David so much that he wants to turn him into an unsympathetic arsehole. Defeats the tragedy of the story. I always thought the character of David in the original film was an okay guy just reacting how anyone in that situation would, total disbelief that this was actually happening. It's only after the first transformation he realises Jack was right and comes to terms that he has to die.
I'll be honest I don't care about character's backstories when you have a horror movie, this isn't a drama piece. You don't need to flesh out every single character. You can write interesting characters without giving too much away. I don't need to know their whole life story, just to know enough about them. Besides, I don't want David being a cheating arsehole. I'm sick and tired of this trend of tearing down original characters and reinventing them as 'flawed' but 'improved' versions. No, not improved but very flawed writing.
I like Max's original stories, stick to those. We need original stories. People are sick of remakes. A remake implies that the original can be improved. That is an insult to his father and the many talented people who worked on that film. I'm glad this version never happened and let's hope any other planned attempt doesn't see the light of day either.
So GLAD it has been canned.
@Nightmare Maker why?
Doing the 'cancel culture comeback'... Looking forward to the Rogan appearance...
Lol what are you talking about I’ve been posting regularly for three years, comments like this are so bizarre to me because they show that to the majority of people in the world I exist in this bizarre context where I’m only alive if the algorithm randomly serves me to them
I'm not saying it's a bad thing. Just seeing you on more podcasts and getting back out there. A comeback could be on the cards... The Daily Wire produces films now.
@@Josh-sj9ig Oooo dude do one more. Name one more right-wing thing that exists.
@Jordon Virtue what’ you talking about
You and your dad are both BRILLIANT ❤