[Cursebearer]

There's not even a confirmed female werewolf, bcislandguy, so making the leap that this move is in limbo because there's a female werewolf in it when TF-Viewer's scenario is clearly a lot more reasonable is a little strange. It's not like cinema has never played with making women into grotesque monsters before, either. Aliens, vampires, zombies, female monsters are actually pretty common and I don't think an audience would pass up on a theoretical female AWIL because the werewolf is female. Speaking frankly, the point of the werewolf transformation in AWIL is to be both deeply disturbing and inspire empathy with the werewolf, which both are still very achievable with a female lead.

To put it in simple terms, the average movie-goer likes horror elements like this because they are grotesque, not in spite of them being grotesque. Comparing what the audience wants to see in a horror movie to what they want in those mass-appeal blockbusters like Transformers is not particularly useful.

This is interesting discussion, but female werewolf or not I do hope that the movie gets made just because I'm a bit of a fan of Max Landis. It sounds like he's done most of his part for the movie and it has a completed script, but that it's currently in the approval process going off of the more recent interview. I think that's probably why it's currently up in the air whether or not it happens, and I'm rooting for Landis because this interview made it seem like something he really wants to do.