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Wolf Man Director Reveals Why He Wants to Make a Third Universal Monsters Reboot
ComicBook.comStory by Ashley Turner
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Filmmaker Leigh Whannell's OCD compulsions could drive him to complete a Universal Monsters trilogy, with a modern 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' adaptation as his dream project.
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- Whannell's 'weird filmmaker OCD' makes him feel he 'has to do three' monster movies to satisfy his need for symmetry and numerical patterns.
- Whannell previously revealed his long-standing fascination with the concept of 'the hero and the villain being the same person' in a contemporary take on 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'.
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Leigh Whannell, Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, Universal Monsters, Blumhouse Productions, Atomic Monster, Netflix, Warner Bros., Wolf Man (2025), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Van Helsing, Frankenstein