Sir John Talbot



Sir John Talbot is the main villain of the 2010 remake of the groundbreaking 1941 horror classic The Wolfman.

As opposed to the character in the original film, who plays a minor role and is remorseful in personality, Talbot is very disturbing and unforgiving. In the remake, Sir Talbot was bitten by a "feral wolf boy" (a hairless feral boy suffering from werewolfism who was in his human form, which looked like Gollum, at the time) durring a hunting expedition in India.

After that time, Sir Talbot went on a rampage, and murdered his wife Solana Talbot in wolf form in front of his son Lawrence Talbot (the protagonist of the film). He had his servant lock him up every full moon night after that, untill one night he escaped and killed his other son Ben Talbot (after having an argument with him) and bit Lawrence, leading up to the events when Lawrence went on a bloody rampage as he is unable to control his transformations. Realizing the power of the werewolf, he killed his servant and focuses on controlling his power for his own needs. Sir Talbot tried to force his son Lawrence into joining him, but Lawrence refuses. Lawrence would later confront his father back in their mansion, and as the full moon arises, they both turn into their wolf forms and started attacking each other. At first, Sir Talbot proves to be the powerful of the two monsters, but Lawrence would gain the upper hand by kicking his evil father into the fireplace, where he starts to move around roaring in pain caused by the flames. At that point, Lawrence kills his father by decapitating him as revenge for killing his mother and brother and cursing him.

In the 2010 remake, he was played by Anthony Hopkins.