Universal is going to try and reboot all their classic 1930's / 1940's movie monsters , all into a shared Universe
The way Marvel Studios has been doing with their comic book movies
Universal Pictures , will be bringing back such characters as the Wolfman , Frankenstein , Dracula , and others , and they will all coexist
And if you noticed , Russell Crow in the trailer , he's playing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , and Johnny Depp has apparently been inked to play The Invisible man
So basically , The Mummy is the first , of which I'm sure Universal Studio is hoping , will be many more classic monster reboots , where each movie will cross over into the other , the same way Marvel does with the Avengers
Me personally , I love the idea , now will it work .......................we'll wait and see
Yea , watching the Mummy trailer , you defiantly get the Tom Cruise vibe , but , the creative team behind all the upcoming Universal Monsters movies , are the guys that have brought us the Mission Impossible and The Fast and the Furious movies , which all pretty good actions movies , now we'll just have to wait and see if they can make a monster movie , or even more , an entire universe of monster moviesVan Helsing was a revolutionary film in this regard. It tied together many of the old Monster stories all into one film. Van Helsing was Dr. Frankenstein's partner that disagreed with his experiments. In 'Van Helsing' the movie he was the hero and Frankenstein's monster was a misunderstood freak that was actually good at heart, but he was created to help Dracula bring his children to life. Dracula commissioned Dr. Frankenstein to create the monster. Dracula brought about a werewolf to help him do his bidding and also to attempt to power his machine that would awaken his babies. There is an appearance from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the beginning as the Vatican is responsible for charging Van Helsing with dispatching the many monsters throughout the world.
Upon watching the Mummy trailer I instantly wondered who is the character played by Tom Cruise? Is it similar to the Van Helsing character in the movie by the same name?
I also figure that it will be another 'Tom Cruise' movie. So many of his films seem the same because he acts the same in all of them.
Yea , watching the Mummy trailer , you defiantly get the Tom Cruise vibe , but , the creative team behind all the upcoming Universal Monsters movies , are the guys that have brought us the Mission Impossible and The Fast and the Furious movies , which all pretty good actions movies , now we'll just have to wait and see if they can make a monster movie , or even more , an entire universe of monster movies
As far as Tom Cruise , no , he doesn't appear to be the Van Helsing type character , their actually working on a separate Van Halsing movie
But who Tom Cruise is in the Mummy
this is my guess , and only a guess , but I think Russell Crowes , Dr Jekyll is behind everything , he's the one who had them bring the mummy back to his place , and I think Dr Jekyll is doing all kinds of hidden experiments
In the trailer they at least make it look like Tom Cruise died in that plane crash , then he wakes up on the morgue table , so does Dr Jekyll have a way of brining him back to life , and will this have anything to do with Frankenstein
And it sounds like Van Helsing will be very unlike Huge Jackman's version , they said it will be much scarier if he's one guy in the room , that is NOT a monster , just an average guy who has to survive on his wit alone
I think Dr Jekyll is the guy pulling all the strings
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