Lobo Finds Werewolves in the Amazon

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 12th, 2008

Lobo is a new film from Brazilian writers Dikran Ornekian and Ryan Colluci to be produced by Stone Village Pictures. Variety reports that Ezna Sands (Craven Marsh) will direct and Scott Steindorff will produce the feature about a man inheriting clues about a lost town deep in the Amazon rain forest. He learns his legacy dates back to the village and the werewolves who live there.

“The stylized nature of the film is what drew me, because it’s far less a monster movie than a Western in the mold of Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America [sic],” Sands told the paper. “I have the opportunity to bring back to audiences the kind of hero they had in the ’70s, someone as dark and conflicted as the new James Bond or the Dark Knight. Our intention is to tell a single story over three films, and this first chapter is a guy who makes a massive revelation.”

The $15 million production will begin outside Rio de Janeiro in October  and the pre-release strategy is for the writers to also produce a graphic-novel adaptation as well.