Joe Dante Howls for Vampire-Werewolf Flick Ombra Amore
John Squires
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1981 saw the release of Joe Dante’s The Howling, which is widely considered to be one of the best werewolf films of all time. Over 30 years later, Dante is once again getting ready to sprout fur and howl at the moon, and we’ve got all the info for ya today!
THR reports that the Gremlins director is heading to Rome for the vampire-werewolf love story Ombra Amore, which will be one of eight projects in the Rome Film Festival’s New Cinema Network co-production section dubbed ‘Great Beauties,’ focusing on films that promote Italy as an ideal production partner for global films.
Dante has chosen underground Rome as the setting for the vampire-werewolf love story that puts a classical Romeo and Juliet tale into today’s financial-crisis-ridden Italy.
Pete is a werewolf whose pack is a crew of hotheaded financial traders responsible for Italy’s current economic crisis. Maggie is a vampire whose family is a formerly wealthy aristocratic clan brought to bankruptcy by the greedy werewolves. Surrounded by other-worldly troubles, it remains to be seen whether or not their love can survive among the warring families.
Ombra Amore is budgeted at around $14.6 million. Dante promises “a compelling new take on a classic genre.”
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