THE WOLF MAN COMETH...AGAIN

Remember those old horror flicks whose most sophisticated special effects were a guy in a fuzzy suit and time-lapse photography? Benicio Del Toro will revise the role originally played by Lon Chaney, Jr. in the classic 1941 werewolf film, The Wolf Man. This should not come as a surprise to his fans who are used to watching Del Toro in gritty tough guy roles; according to an interview in the Miami Herald, Del Toro has possessed a fondness for monster movies since childhood. He is also a collector of Wolf Man memorabilia.

Del Toro will co-produce the film with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who gave us such films as Sleepy Hollow and Se7en. Walker's script will maintain an English setting. As the movie is associated with Del Toro, don't look for the ordinary. Filming will begin in 2007, with a tentative release date in 2008. Mark Romanek is slated to direct.

And speaking of creepy creatures, the busiest man in Hollywood will lend his vocal talents to the screen adaptation of children's author Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. You remember the story of the naughty, little boy who was sent without supper to his room, where he invented an imaginary world full of monsters who "roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws." Director Spike Jonze, who gave us Being John Malkovich, co-wrote the screenplay for the project, scheduled to be released in 2007.

Del Toro is currently filming the Che Guevera biopic, Guerrilla, which is tentatively scheduled for a 2008 release date.