The Wolfman is a 2010 American period horror film directed by Joe Johnston, from a screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self. A remake of the 1941 film The Wolf Man, it stars Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving. In the film, after his brother is brutally murdered, an actor based in America returns to his ancestral homeland in England, where he is bitten by a werewolf and cursed to become one.