Thursday, July 17, 2014
UNIVERSALVERSE: Universal Studios is going to try to reboot all the movie monster franchises it owns -- potentially including Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, Creature Of The Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, Bride Of Frankenstein, and The Mummy -- into a single film narrative universe, like what Marvel did with all the ones for which it still had film rights.
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Somewhere, Fred Dekker and Shane Black's ears perked up.
ReplyDeleteThis was done with some dexterity in "Penny Dreadful" on Showtime recently. I think the key there was that the creatures played a role in the story, but they weren't the driver of it. The "narrative spine" came from a new story. I suspect that won't be the case in the Universal movies.
ReplyDeleteI assume this means they're remaking Monster Squad, a movie I loved as a kid, but am too afraid to revisit because I've got a sinking feeling that there's no way it holds up.
ReplyDeletePretty sure Monster Squad was not a Universal production, although they used some of the same monsters (if not necessarily the classic U makeup designs).
ReplyDeleteI doubt I've seen it since I was ten, so I wouldn't know. I just looked it up, and apparently they brought Stan Winston in to reimagine the Universal monsters. Probably wasn't his idea to give the Wolfman nards.
ReplyDeleteVan Helsing wasn't a terrible idea, but was horrendously executed.
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