John Landis' 1981 cult classic horror AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Dimension Films has set its sights on remaking John Landis’ 1981 cult classic horror AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Dimension has picked up the rights from Landis in what was described as a competitive environment. Overture execs-turned-producers Sean and Bryan Furst are on board to produce.

Landis wrote and directed the comedy-horror film, which starred David Naughton and Griffin Dunne as two American backpackers hiking in the Yorkshire moors attacked by a mysterious animal who turns out to be a werewolf. Naughton ends up terrorizing London while Dunne is a reanimated corpse suggesting ways for Naughton to kill himself and stop the curse.

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