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The Universal monsters to get a shared Cinematic Universe?

October 21st, 2013 by Irwin Fletcher Comments

Back in 2012 we learned that Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman would be producing remakes of Van Helsing and The Mummy for Universal Pictures. It doesn’t seem like much has happened with those since the announcement. That might be because they are planning something a little bigger than expected.

In a recent interview with IGN, Orci was asked about the Van Helsing remake and he revealed some bigger plans for a monster cinematic universe, along the lines of what Marvel has done with their cinematic properties:

“There’s an interesting thing that could happen at Universal where they have this amazing library of their old monsters and these kinds of heroes, and the idea of trying to create a universe. Van Helsing, and we’re also producing The Mummy for them. We’re kind of imagining updating these kinds of things. You don’t want to just make remakes when you’re doing a thing, unless it’s worthy of being a remake, but when you have an idea for something that can actually be made different and yet be true to what it was. We just had a notion of how to make it modern and have a slightly different tone. It’s not going to be just a remake.”

When asked which was his favorite monster, Orci replied:

“I love Frankenstein just cause it’s such a twisted, complicated monster. A monster that’s not really a monster.”

None of this is confirmed yet by Universal, but it makes total sense. You might remember that the monster movies back in the day did this sort of thing. There was even a Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman back in the 40′s.

As for the previously  movies mentioned, Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) was in talks to direct Van Helsing with Tom Cruise set to star. Andres Muschietti (Mama) was in talks to direct The Mummy.

Source: IGN

 

 

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