Universal Monsters

[IowaRam]

I've always been a huge fan of all the original Universal Monsters from the 1930's and 1940's , and their sequels

And now , with all the success that Marvel and Disney has had with their Marvel Expanded Universe movies

Universal wants to get in on the piece of the action , and plan on doing the same with rebooting all their old Monster movies and creating their own new expanded universe

First up will be The Mummy staring Tom Cruise , which comes out in June of next year I believe , and now word today comes that , the second Universal Monster movie will be The Invisible Man , staring Johnny Depp

I also read last Fall that Scarlett Johansson was linked to a New Creature Of The Black Lagoon movie , but it's been a while since I've heard anything else , so will have to wait and see on that one , but so far looks like Universal has got two of the biggest names in Hollywood lined up

Even though I'm excited about the news , that their going to reboot some of my favorite movies of all time , I'm also pretty worried , like most monster movies these days , they try and turn them in to CGI Action Adventure movies , which is what has me worried about these reboot , for the old classics are actually horror movies , which is what they should be

So I'm hoping they get it right

 

[IowaRam]

 

[fearsomefour]

Bela and Lon....cant get better than that.

 

[Akrasian]

There's already been a reboot of the Invisible Man

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

I don't think they will come anywhere near the success of the Marvel voiceovers. Monsters just don't have the overall appeal. The Mummy has been done, the Wolfman was very good with Benicio Del Torro, and Anthony Hopkins, and Interview with a Vampire was great too. But they just don't draw the interest like Real life Superheroes.

 

[IowaRam]

Annabelle Wallis is joining Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella in next years The Mummy remake , I have no idea if it will be any good , but so far it's "looking" good..................lol