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Originally Posted by Lycanthrokeith
There's one aspect of the AWIL remake that is being overlooked.
Even if the lead is female, and even if Landis the younger is at the helm...the effects will be nowhere near as good. Even if Rick Baker hadn't retired, the movie studios would instinctively resort to less expensive CGI as opposed to the previously used makeup, prosthetics, and animatronics.
There's just ultimately no way the remake will stack up to the original, solely for that fact.
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There is some hope that CGI won’t be exclusively used. First of all, as I mentioned before, since Landis is the son of the original’s writer and director, it would make sense that he would want to honor the source material and use (at least mostly) practical effects for the TF. From a more pragmatic standpoint, however, don’t forget the ‘90s sequel, “American Werewolf in Paris,” bombed hard, and one of those reasons was because they relied almost exclusively on CGI for the TFs. I remember excitedly reading reviews of the movie when it came out (before I discovered how terrible it was), and even mainstream critics were bothered by the overuse of “computer graphics” for the transformation (what they called it before the popularity of the acronym “CGI”). They said the transformation wasn’t anywhere near as “realistic” as the original, which was ironic since special effects presumably advanced in the 15 years between those two movies. So if even most critics, who almost assuredly don’t share our fetish, complained about the CGI TF, it’s likely or at least hopeful that Landis will use mostly practical effects to distance himself from that critical and commercial failure. Now, it’s true that since “AWIP,” there have been a number of female werewolf productions that ended up also using CGI for the TFs, most notably the aptly named “Cursed,” a production that literally kicked Rick Baker out for some godforsaken reason. But this remake at least has that “AWIL” connection where the iconic TF was so essential to the movie, so it would make sense it would follow in that classic’s pawprints.