Hirsute actor Benicio del Toro is set to play the titular character in director Mark Romanek’s remake of The Wolfman. Actress Emily Blunt says the movie will be scary and, surprisingly, encourages us all to watch:

The Devil Wears Prada actress, long rumored to be playing the love interest in director Mark Romanek’s re-imagining of the classic Lon Chaney Jr. horror film The Wolf Man (with a script supplied by Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker), confirmed that, yes, she is definitely on board as the object of Benicio Del Toro’s lupine lust.

Lupine lust. God, we love journalism.

Blunt also expressed a great deal of enthusiasm about the project in general. “I don’t really love horror, but I love those two guys [Mark Romanek and Benicio del Toro] and that’s why I want to do it,” she explains.

“It’s a great script, as well as very smart and dark…It’s gonna be scary. I think it will have quite a gothic edge and I hope people like it.”

Hope she doesn’t mind hairballs.

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