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MoviesOnline sat down with director Joe Johnston to talk about his new film, The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily Blunt. An Academy Award-winning art director for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Johnston’s resume as a director includes a strong combination of character-driven films such as October Sky and epic visual effects movies including Jurassic Park III and Hidalgo.

As with all of his projects, Johnston was far more interested in story before spectacle. In screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self’s tale, he found underneath the action and the blood and the terror, a love story about Lawrence Talbot and his dead brother’s fiancée, Gwen. “I wanted that relationship to be the element that held the story together,” he explains, “the key piece that invested the audience in understanding this horrible thing Lawrence is inflicted with.”

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Have you not read Ron's article on sexy werewolves? Shame on you. Go Here to check it out. // Joe Johnston is the one director most people seem to be familiar with even though he's done a lot of great work. From the classic comic book movie The Rocketeer to Jurassic Park III, the man is no stranger to doing big budget films. So Joe was the man Universal called to save The Wolfman from production bedlam. After whatshisname left the picture, Joe stepped in and managed to not only save the movie, but make a pretty decent remake at that. At the press conference for The Wolfman, Joe discusses the rating of the movie, extended cuts, CGI, the look of the movie, the editing process and more. In the process of reshoots and release dates, did you ever try a PG-13 version? Was there an extended version? Johnston: No, it was always an R rating.