I’ve been holed up in Hall H all morning for the awesome movie panels (Watchmen!!!), but by the time Universal’s The Wolfman panel began, my laptop battery was dead and I was fainting from starving. I headed over to the Press Room upstairs to recharge and snack on chips and although I missed the entire panel, for some reason, they were playing The Wolfman trailer in the room, so I did catch it at lease.

But, for full coverage, I’ll have to rely on my friend Vic over at ScreenRant, who held my seat while I went off to recharge.

Stars Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro, and make-up effects artist Rick Baker were on the panel for Universal’s Wolfman remake, a Victorian-era period piece taking place in the late 1800s.

The crowd was shown an restricted-type trailer that had gruesome parts to it; Baker said he wasn’t sure if the Joe Johnston-directed film was going to be R rated.

Baker — a master in the field of make-up effects who won an Oscar for An American Werewolf in London — said that when he heard that Universal was doing this remake, he made sure that he was the one doing the make-up effects.

While Baker, apparently, doesn’t have anything against CGI, he thought it would be more appropriate to use “real” make-up effects for The Wolfman. STYD reported that Baker said that the werewolf transformation has not been filmed yet, but that it will most likely be CGI.

The Wolfman is scheduled to open in theaters April 3, 2009.