Trivia: Rick Baker promised John Landis that he would work with him on An American Werewolf in London when John had enough money to make it. After waiting eight years, Rick decided to work on The Howling, another werewolf themed movie. One day, right out of the blue, John called Rick and told him he had finally had the money to make American Werewolf. According to Rick, when he informed John that he was already working on another werewolf movie, John started screaming and swearing at Rick. Rick calmed John down and told him he would still do American Werewolf and leave the werewolves for The Howling to Rob Bottin. Rick has stated that to this very day, John had still not forgiven him for working on another werewolf movie.