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Part of the "Dark Universe"??
posted by jorgito2001STAFFMOD on February 14, 2020 at 9:03 AM
I thought the failed Tom Cruise Mummy was the beginning and the end of Universal's interconnected "Dark Universe"..but it seems an ARTICLE on one of my favorite theme park news sites mentions The Walking Dead walkthrough is turning into a "Dark Universe" walkthrough..and Invisible Man is mentioned...
Reply by RodimusConvoy
on March 1, 2020 at 12:28 AM
Yes and no.
In other words, they're not opposed to connecting these films down the line...but the focus for now is making sure these stand alone films are successful.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on March 1, 2020 at 7:49 AM
I can't see how a film of these characters coming together could really work. It was pretty much done in Van Helsing. Which I'm still recovering from 16 years later. How is it gonna be any different from another empty, tiresome good guys fight the monsters for 2 hours borefest.
Reply by tmdb33747247
on March 1, 2020 at 5:28 PM
Dark Universe was just a bad idea from the start. Most of those old characters were really only scary or interesting because nothing like it had been done before, so the audience had a sense of naivety about them. At this point, the Mummy just isn't an interesting concept anymore; same goes for Dracula, the Invisible Man, the Wolf Man, etc. More interesting things have been done in cinema since those movies took off almost a century ago. In order to make the movies interesting in our current market, you have to put some clever spin on the whole thing and make it a smart, somewhat unexpected story. I don't see that coming from Universal.
Reply by Slava
on March 2, 2020 at 8:04 AM
Seems like it is part of the Dart Universe - https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a829209/universal-dark-universe-the-mummy-bride-of-frankenstein-the-invisible-man-trailer-release-date/
Reply by RodimusConvoy
on March 2, 2020 at 9:12 AM
"The Invisible Man's director told CinemaBlend: "At no stage did someone call me and say 'oh hey, by the way, we'd love it if we could have a cameo from Dr Jekyll in the movie' or 'we'd love if you could come in and look at some of our plans'. It was only ever treated by Universal as a standalone film.""
The rest of the link goes in that direction. I especially loved this part which explains what's happening currently: "This is a move similar to Warner Bros' recent shift away from a connected Worlds of DC. Joker, for example, is part of the Worlds of DC but doesn't have any plot, character or world links to the rest of the DC movies.
Warner Bros' other successful outing, Shazam!, is more connected plot-wise to the Worlds of DC but did not feature a single cameo of another DC movie character. This has proved fruitful for WB, and it looks like Universal has taken a page from its book."
Reply by tmdb33747247
on March 2, 2020 at 4:25 PM
To be fair, Shazam! Had a faceless cameo from Superman, which would have been played by Henry Cavil if they'd been able to come to an agreement with him. So it had a cameo of another character, after a fashion, and certainly would have had an official one, if they'd been able to pull it off behind the scenes.
Reply by RodimusConvoy
on March 2, 2020 at 4:40 PM
No, I get it. Folks are in confirmation bias mode. I guess more people liked the idea of the Dark Universe than I thought. Just...not enough to make the Mummy a hit. shrugs
I could find plenty of links that don't mention Shazam! but otherwise say the same thing, including the very link I originally posted. But that's fine. I'll just listen to what the director of The Invisible Man said and call it a day. Ah, and Elizabeth Banks tapped to do an unrelated Invisible Woman movie by Universal.
Reply by tmdb33747247
on March 3, 2020 at 3:46 AM
Not sure where the hostility is coming from. I don't disagree with you, nor do I like the idea of the 'Dark Universe.' Was just pointing out that there was, in fact, a cameo in Shazam.
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on March 3, 2020 at 6:45 AM
I think shared universes are a concept that usually doesn't work. It works with Marvel because all these characters already had a long established history of crossing over in the comics. It's a world that is pretty silly and ridiculous. You have a god from Norse mythology teaming up with a rich man who builds a sci-fi suit of armor to fight aliens and A.I. robots.
But people are prepared to accept that silliness. It's light and doesn't take itself too seriously. They also took their time building that world.
Reply by manfromatlantis
on March 5, 2020 at 3:30 PM
would like to see this in theatre/
Reply by jorgito2001
on March 18, 2020 at 12:21 PM
Oh come on man, Van Helsing was TERRIBLE! SFX overload and the story was paper thin! I'm all for an action extravaganza with light humor, but the movie was like Van Helsing 1 & 2 packed into ONE movie (couldn't they leave out Helsing turning into a werewolf for a sequel?! It was OVERKILL!) the plot was all over the place and the SFX couldn't save it! hence, it FAILED miserably!
Reply by JustinJackFlash
on March 19, 2020 at 7:26 AM
Yeah, I wanted Van Helsing to be fun. But it was just overblown and trying way too hard.
But the misconception amongst some is that if something is just supposed to be a trashy, dumb action movie then it gets a free pass. But it ain't that simple. I watch trashy actioners all the time and get a lot of fun out of it. But there is still an art to making one. There has to be a kind of charm to it.
As far as Stephen Sommers goes, I think his first Mummy film got it spot on. I enjoyed that. But then Van Helsing was trying to blow your mind by throwing everything at you, even in the "quiet" bits. I had a blast watching Deep Rising too. Sommers knows how to do it, but unfortunately he just lost it pretty early.
Reply by jorgito2001
on March 19, 2020 at 3:34 PM
HAHA..and you're a fan of Van Helsing..so YOU can STFU and sit your fat ass down as well!