www.variety.com: After amassing a list of credits any producer would envy, you might wonder what kinds of films Dino De Laurentiis wants to make next. The answer is simple — the sorts of movies that fill the screen with awe-inspiring visuals and leave the audience astonished.

“Dino De Laurentiis is still as aggressive as the newest producer on the block,” says Lorenzo De Maio, the Dino De Laurentiis Co.’s vice president of production development. “When I give him a book to read, I know he’ll get through it very fast, and he’s also always reading on his own, looking for something special.”

The list of upcoming projects also includes an adaptation of the Karen Russell novel “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” about a group of adolescents reared by werewolves and are now being taught by a nuns on how to enter the world of polite society. The fantasy and horror elements of a story like this certainly are familiar territory for De Laurentiis, but there are other elements in the work that attracted him.

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Wow! Dino De Laurentiis making a werewolf movie? COUNT ME IN! I am just loving, loving, loving all of the horror/vamp/werewolf movie news I have been hearing lately! 🙂 I havent had the pleasure of reading Karen Russell’s werewolf story, but it sounds great as well!

Have you read the book “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”?

Would you watch this movie?