Freeborn vs. Blood and Chocolate

[Jamie]

I don't really mind if Freeborn comes out second. I don't want the film to be rushed. And if someone comments on Freeborn being a 'bandwagon' film I'd probably go and punch their lights out, damned the consequences.

As far as "jumping on the werewolf bandwagon" goes, I don't think Anthony and the other Freeborn crew members should worry. For one thing, I've been reading that B&C is already getting accused of "jumping on the werewolf bandwagon" itself, because of the mini-werewolf fad that started about two years ago (when Underworld, Van Helsing and several other werewolf movies marched through the theaters one after the other).
If B&C is already getting accused of being a bandwagon movie, then Freeborn isn't going to be able to avoid that accusation anyway, except by being so good that people think of it as a groundbreaking film, not another imitator. And for people to think of it as a groundbreaking film, it needs to not be rushed so that a good job is done.

[Scott Gardener]

What werewolf bandwagon? Except for Cursed, which in spite of Wes Craven directing and Rick Baker being at least hired to do the shifting effects still sucked, the others were movies that just had werewolves in them; vampires got at least equal screen time.

[Jamie]

What werewolf bandwagon? Except for Cursed, which in spite of Wes Craven directing and Rick Baker being at least hired to do the shifting effects still sucked, the others were movies that just had werewolves in them; vampires got at least equal screen time.

It doesn't have to be successful movies, it just has to be movies that ordinary people notice exist, that have werewolves in them. That by itself is enough for the movie industry to think that everyone is jumping on the same bandwagon. And, there have been an unusually large number of werewolf movies either in theaters or (more likely) in development the last few years.