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The Rick Baker Tragedy: How Universal sabotaged their own Wolfman remake.
Baker was hired to do a full practical transformation, faithful to the 1941 original but updated with modern technology . Three hours of makeup daily. Individual yak hairs. A design so good it won the Oscar.
Then the director got swapped and the studio panicked. Baker’s practical work was sidelined for CGI he had no involvement in. He said publicly it left him feeling “pushed out.”
The result is schizophrenic in my opinion.
Universal had the best practical monster designer alive and replaced his most important shots because a new director didn’t have time to storyboard them properly.
What are your thoughts on this?
u/Administrative-Half3 — 14 hours ago
