Last June, a rumor surfaced that Universal Pictures was courting action superstar Dwayne Johnson to portray The Wolf Man in their growing monster reboot universe, which the studio revealed last week will be called Dark Universe.
Between then and now, Universal hasn’t provided any updates whatsoever regarding their Wolf Man project, but a new report claims that rumors about Dwayne Johnson starring as The Wolf Man are still prevalent, although nothing is set in stone quite yet.
Universal tried to reboot the character in 2010 with The Wolf Man, starring Benicio del Toro as Larry Talbot and Anthony Hopkins as Sir John Talbot, but audiences didn’t respond to that movie.
As of now, The Wolf Man reboot doesn’t have a release date or a director quite yet, and the studio hasn’t announced when production may begin, but the studio already has other projects further along in development like The Invisible Man, starring Johnny Depp and The Bride of Frankenstein, which has Bill Condon set to direct, with the studio reportedly courting Angelina Jolie for the title character.