Trailer
Plot summary
Andy McDermott is a tourist in Paris, traveling with his friends Brad and Chris. He is about to bungee jump from the Eiffel Tower when Serafine Pigot leaps from it, and he catches her in mid-air. She slips away into the night, and Andy wants to find her again. He tracks her down, meets her, and talks her into a date. Through Serafine he and his friends meet Claude, who owns an underground club called Club de la Lune and invites them along. Andy has no idea that a werewolf society lives in the city, or that a serum lets its members change shape whenever they wish, without waiting for a full moon.
Cast
- Serge Bassoas Officer with Flashlight
- Ben Salem Bouabdallahas Detective Ben Bou
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
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- Landis said PolyGram came to him for a sequel in 1991 for a blunt reason: of the ten or twelve films the company made under Jon Peters and Peter Guber, An American Werewolf in London was the only one that made money.
- Landis's own draft followed Debbie Klein, a character only mentioned in the first film, investigating the deaths of David Kessler and Jack Goodman, and brought back Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine and Paul Kember. The studio turned it down, and Landis refused to write a second treatment and told them to make the sequel without him.
- Tom Stern was hired to write the film and direct it, and lost the directing job by writing it too well: the studio liked the script so much that it raised the budget above the $10-12 million he had been trusted with and wanted a big name it could sell in foreign presales.
- Neal Purvis and Robert Wade spent six months on the script and came up with the danger tour and the bungee jump off the Eiffel Tower. Purvis called it bizarre that years of drafts, John Landis's own included, were simply tossed out of the window.
- The film is largely why Bush's "Mouth" was released as a single in October 1997: the song was used prominently in the picture and its trailer, and the single, billed as coming from the soundtrack, went on to chart on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks lists.
