Support NeoGAF

[DiipuSurotu]

So they're just skipping Frankenstein's movie and are going straight to FB? Some weird choices for this MCU.

Oh yeah, I forgot that stupid Tom Cruise Mummy movie is still happening.

What if in this version Dr. Frankenstein's monster is the reanimated corpse of his own wife? The Mummy is female too so who knows!

 

[Dan]

Sure, I totally believe Movie Pilot, this 4-month-old post, and Universal's wild casting wish list.

 

[Rydeen]

Am I the only person who really enjoyed this?

The theatrical cut was a mess, but the directors cut is legitimately a great film, it's just too slow for modern audiences, much like it's source film. Loved they worked visual references to Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast into it, and I really like how they handled the father/son dynamic that was kind of a dead end in the original movie, even if you could see the twist coming a mile away.

Btw, just so everybody knows, Guillermo Del Toro had been trying to get a authentic remake of Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein made at Universal for almost 15 years based off of Bernie Wrightson's illustrations, and was attached to Creature from the Black Lagoon for over a decade, taking place in a period setting with a sunken mezo American temple as the main set piece. Of course because they're both Del Toro projects neither happened.

 

[zeemumu]

What are the monsters going to fight? Some nameless black CGI alien cut from a Marvel movie?

Cthulhu

 

[shira]

They are hard up for new movie ideas.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

What are the monsters going to fight? Some nameless black CGI alien cut from a Marvel movie?

Maybe they all die in their respective movies, and then they escape Hell and fight Satan in the crossover movie.

 

[MagnaderAlpha]

All I really want is a new Creature from the Black Lagoon made with modern 3D filming techniques. Couldn't care less about a shared universe; The Monster Squad is already the Avengers of the Universal Monsters franchise.

Monster Squad did all that, which I agree, and yet, still remains a movie that is openly loved by many horror fans because of the mad respect it gives to the genre(classic horror and horror in general). I doubt this Universal Monsters CU will give that much respect. Alex Kurtzman(Transformers movies, Amazing Spider-Man 2) is heading the project (even got Roberto Orci, his writing partner on the Transformers movies and ASM2, to produce a few). It all makes sense that The Mummy reboot is focusing on Navy SEALs(though might not be as much "Yeah, Amurica!!!!" since Bay is not involved).

 

[Discotheque]

Maybe they all die in their respective movies, and then they escape Hell and fight Satan in the crossover movie.

Monsters vs Lucifer sounds great. And I think they should keep luke evans as Dracula. That is good casting that shouldn't be thrown away because the film didn't deliver

But yeah Kurtzman (mistakenly said Orci last page...same shit) means this slate of films will end up pretty horrible

 

[Loxley]

Sounds like Dracula Untold is the green lantern of the universe.

That's...actually a fairly accurate description from the sound of it.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

This sounds..dumb?

 

[SchrodingerC]

What if in this version Dr. Frankenstein's monster is the reanimated corpse of his own wife? The Mummy is female too so who knows!

That would be an interesting reimagining of the story. Whether or not they pull it off is another story.

 

[MHWilliams]

How do you try to do a monsters universe and leave off

Dracula
Frankenstein

They're already looking to do a Bride Of, so why not get Frankenstein in there too.

Dracula Untold was rejiggered to soft connect to this universe, but it bombed out critically. (It was actually profitable.) The Mummy is the first real film and like the others, represents Universal pulling in real star power.

Luke Evans is not real star power.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

I guess those rumors of a Russell Crowe Jekyll/Hyde movie weren't true.

 

[Extra Sauce]

So they're gonna follow the DC model of pretending like the last movie was not a creative failure.

 

[Busty]

It's going to be awful and I expect after the first few bomb the rest won't get made.

Yup.

The fatal flaw in Universal's plan is that they only own the very specific designs of the Universal monsters (bolts in Frankenstein's monster's neck for example) not the monsters themselves with the characters (barring the Creature from the Black Lagoon) all public domain.

So if they make a Wolfman (or whatever) film that is a huge hit then every other studio and TV network can start pumping out their 'monster' projects diluting Universal's films.

But all Universal's previous efforts have disappointed and the previous Frankenstein films have bombed so where the studio thinks the pent up demand for a shared universe of monsters is coming from is beyond me.

Hell, a successful remake of something like Monster Squad could kill this whole thing stone dead.

So they're gonna follow the DC model of pretending like the last movie was not a creative failure.

If it does nearly $750m worldwide like Suicide Squad I'm not sure that they'll give a fuck.

 

[afternoon delight]

Btw, just so everybody knows, Guillermo Del Toro had been trying to get a authentic remake of Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein made at Universal for almost 15 years based off of Bernie Wrightson's illustrations, and was attached to Creature from the Black Lagoon for over a decade, taking place in a period setting with a sunken mezo American temple as the main set piece. Of course because they're both Del Toro projects neither happened.

 

[strafer]

The Rock as the Wolfman? Hmm, I don't see it.

 

[acheron_xl]

Depp will still be a bankable star in 2019?