>Tom Cruise >Johnny Depp >Dwayne Johnson >Scarlet Johansson
Those big actors on the main roles are literally the only reason anyone would watch those and the studio probably knows it after Dracula's failure.
Audiences have absolutely no interest in this particular material these days, and it's a very thin ice to build a cinematic universe upon. There's no hype. They force people to watch it through established hollywood stars. That's a negative balance.
Take Marvel or Star Wars, for example - those things will be profitable for quite some time even if they cast absolute nobodies, even more - they actually make new stars out of people they cast. That's a positive balance
Jace Davis
Who asked for this?
Andrew Wright
i have the weirdest boner
Gavin Rogers
Is it possible to have a mummy bondage fetish actually never mind
Evan Murphy
Universal executives looking for something they own that can do capehsit numbers
Zachary Cruz
What are they hoping to achieve with this? Monster Squad 2?
Luke Allen
>The Invisible Man >>Written by Ed Solomon (Now You See Me)
Ha, clever
Caleb Brown
is that bad pussy
Thomas Walker
I'd rather see Tom Cruise in a Fast and Furious movie than this shit.
Henry Perez
None of those actors besides Cruise and crowe are even confirmed yet
Luke Collins
>Dracula's failure And the Del Toro Wolfman and Van Helsing. They haven't been having much luck lately.
Liam Adams
will never do iron man numbers
Jeremiah Robinson
So it's Penny Dreadful, but with jokes.
Ian Brooks
I honestly think the Mummy will do well. If it has Tom Cruise, decent special effects, and quippy, it will be a good start.
just i dont see how any of this other shit is going to stick
johnny depp is not a draw if he's not in a pirate costume. Angelina Jolie is not a draw anymore.
The only other real draw is the Rock. While I am personally interested in a Javier Bardem Frankenstein, the shit Universal will probably come up with will be eye rolling.
If Ghost in the Shell flops and Creature from the Black Lagoon flops, say good-bye to stand-alone black widow movie.
Alexander Baker
>If Ghost in the Shell flops and Creature from the Black Lagoon flops, say good-bye to stand-alone black widow movie.
ScarJo won't be fit for those roles in a couple of years anyway, she already looks laughable in action
>Tom Cruise >Johnny Depp Have become such parodies of themselves that films which had the potential to be great in their own right became forgettable, generic vehicles for both actors. >Scarlet Johansson This maymay needs to end. She's a horrible actor and her charisma/sex appeal/whatever is grossly exaggerated. >Dwayne Johnson Always going to be catchphrase wrestler who went to Hollywood. Good for mindless action and comedies but that's it.
Henry Baker
I don't mind scarjo but the writer is shit. I just meant Id like to see a new take on the story, not necessarily the take outlined in the OP
Jaxson Ortiz
somehow sadder than making live action childrens cartoon classics
>tfw you realized Marvel completely destroyed the movie industry as everyone scrambles to make their own tryhard cinematic universe and adaptations
Jaxon Reed
so are they just making every fucking monster a female now to please the screaming vaginas?
Austin Morgan
Can't wait for the update of Hunchback of Notre Dame
Angel Gomez
>universe helmed by Alex "The talentless hack's talentless hack" Kurtzman >not Guillermo Del Toro
Evan Morris
So the spoopy mummy is a qt now? I like where this is going.
Parker Sullivan
It's not that there's no interest. The execution is just shit. The movies always seem dated and 3 years behind the curve.
Jordan Butler
Wow, talk about your perfect casting...
Brayden Harris
is there porn of a hunchbacked woman getting fucked?
Tyler Lopez
>Guillermo Del Toro >Not a hack
Ok.
Jayden Lopez
How do any of these things connect at all, and why would there be any cross-exposure outside of like Dr. Jerkyll being behind multiple of them?
Seems like a huge clusterfuck of ideas with no direction
Chase Jackson
Who under the age of 60 even likes these old-timey monsters anymore?
Answer: Fucking Nobody
Do they not understand that the point of a cinematic universe is to establish the structure upon which likeable characters can be put together in teamup movies? How the fuck do they plan to do this when the movies are all based on the inhuman villans with whom we are inherently not supposed to be able to relate to?
This whole thing will be an unprecedented flop and Universal will be kill once and for all.
Ryan Clark
why is this so arrousing
Ethan Green
>why is a fit attractive woman arousing Faggot.
Brayden Thompson
i'm a girl
Jayden Wright
Sucking dicks doesn't change your chromosomes, dude.
Matthew Brooks
just give me some good vampire moviers pls
Daniel Powell
>The Wolf Man >starring Dwayne Johnson
The fuck?
Jayden James
Villains you say? What if those villains were used to do some good?
>So that's it huh, we some kinda Monster Squad
Anthony Hill
>old-timey monsters no appreciation for cinematic history, ground-breaking makeup/effects, or classic monsters. opinions invalid
Christopher Allen
>It's not that there's no interest. The execution is just shit...
Penny Dreadful was brilliantly done, but it had little interest.
Jackson Adams
>Bride of Frankenstein >starring Angelina Jolie
this is the meme post, right?
Austin Rivera
they better not even think of re-making this kino
Juan Reed
Im a bit disappointed they are no longer using Dracula Untold.
I feel like it could have easily have fit in with the tone and setting of this universe, especially after seeing the trailer for The Mummy.
Joseph Gray
I wonder how they even plan to make them team up, or give them all a villain to team up against. You literally cannot reuse the same villain in these cinematic universes
In most cases the villain is the only selling piece of the IP, not the hero who defeats them.
Joseph Edwards
>Sources tells Variety that Universal wants to offer Angelina Jolie Pitt directing and starring gigs in “Bride of Frankenstein.”
Apparently a remake was being worked on but was scrapped. Most recently Shane Black spoke about a sequel as being a fun idea.
Elijah Morgan
Sure the patricians on Sup Forums are aware of these things, but to normies they really are just Old Timey Monsters.
Gavin Torres
Wasn't Charles Dance's Master Vampire/Caligula going to be either the main villain or Nick Fury type character in the universe? This was before they decided to drop Dracula Untold from the universe and reboot again obviously. Now it seems like Russell Crowe's Dr. Jekyll may fill that spot
Isaac Taylor
They're remaking The Wolf Man AGAIN?
Brandon Ramirez
Yeah that's pretty shitty casting, what the fuck?
Brody Fisher
Mr Hyde is pretty boring in comparison to the other villains, even if Jekyll holds the universe together
Luke Lewis
That movie was dogshit. The only good part was the Intro.
Brayden Walker
>implying they can top Brendan's Mummy >implying they can top Wolverine's Van Helsing
Xavier Fisher
that's the worst impalement i've ever seen, how would this even work? Poles magically springing out of the ground? (please don't tell me that this is an actual thing in a movie)
Nicholas Torres
>Poles magically springing out of the ground? Or they stuck them into the ground.
William Ward
no it's gazelle from Kingsmen
Christian Rogers
This sounds like absolute pure fucking garbage
Parker Bell
This was the least offensive of all the recent remakes, monster movies and universe starting flicks. It had some good actors, strong visuals despite mediocre CGI and a couple of cool concepts. I was actually ok with seeing more Bard Dracula.
Lucas Perez
This. I actually enjoyed it.
Justin Peterson
>classic horror characters >made into action flicks with the likes of Tom Cruise and The Rock Blech.
Ryder Ross
It probably wouldn't be so bad if there were anyone under 30 who didn't suck.
Brody Watson
Tom Cruise is a decent actor and has done some great stuff over the years, regardless of his real life personality or religious beliefs.
Parker Adams
>Directed by Alex Kurtzman
It's dead Jim. I'm a retard and just by looking at that name I know it's shit. What does this say about Hollywood?
Carson Gonzalez
>all those literal who writers Damn they're going for bottom of the barrel now
Ryder Phillips
I liked Van Helsing.
Isaiah Cook
*BRRRRAAAAAPPPPPLPLPLPLPL*
Owen Gomez
You don't understand my point, most silhouettes in the webm, aside from few correct ones just have poles spiking through their chests or bellies - that can happen only if you just randomly drop them on a pole from a height or if pole rondomly springs up with a sufficient speed. The whole point of impaling as an execution is moving a pole through the whole torso of a still living person starting with their anus. This shit is universal for any culture that had ever practiced impalement
Jonathan Russell
Yes my son. That right there is some bad pussy. Good just very naughty
Isaiah Gray
It makes the Turks look like weak puppets in the webm. I guess that was the point. The movie's visuals are somewhere in between 300 and Macbeth in terms of stylization.
Hudson Cruz
Why was this allowed?
Bentley Scott
>you now remember all those torture chambers from Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Amnesia should be adapted into kino
David Kelly
It just shows how monolithic and dull blockbuster filmmaking is.
Universal has this rich history of iconic horror movies and the only way they can get their heads around remaking them is to turn Dracula into 300, The Mummy into Mission: Impossible, Van Helsing & The Wolfman into superhero movies, etc. etc.
And the worst part is that financially they're probably not even wrong to do this. If they made straight horror movies the audience wouldn't be big enough to justify the cost. The Mummy would be capped at like $100 million domestic gross instead of the $200+ million Tom Cruise Mummy: Impossible could conceivably gross (but won't because it will be a piece of shit).
Adrian Long
This
We already had these render well recently wtf
Levi Williams
Why don't they just make new monsters
Cameron Ortiz
no built in brand recognition
Isaiah Thompson
>All these hack directors >All these near has beens
Will barely sustain itself and fade away in a few years. Should have been smarter about this and giving the whole universe to a visionary director who loves the classics to set the tone. Someone like Sam Raimi. Cast rising stars and unknowns, with the occasional cameo by a distinguished actor instead of "stars".
Logan Myers
This. Why get Alex Kurtzman of all people to create your cinematic universe?
Elijah Smith
I don't think there's any interest. People right now seem to be going for lighthearted action movies with lots of quippy dialogue that they can bring their young kids to watch. These movies can't use that formula without ruining the tone set by the subject matter itself.
Thomas Reed
I'd be surprised if even two of these movies got made after the Mummy. Maybe that's even being too generous. Also casting the Rock just seems lazy. I like him but he has like 30 movies on the horizon, fucking stop.
Andrew Rivera
why not just reboot the league of extraordinary gentlemen
Jeremiah Baker
user...
Noah Sanchez
Wasn't Max Landis' Frankenstein supposed to be part of the Universal MCU or whatever? I kinda doubt anything will come out of this, tho this new Mummy with Cruise seems fun.
Adam Bennett
no, that Landis one was made by Fox
Matthew Harris
oh fuck no, there aren't enough interesting female protagonists in literature. you get what you wish for i guess
Juan Powell
what do you mean? You are a king, do whatever the fuck you want nigga
Nathan Cox
My nigger, that movie is a great guilty pleasure
Thomas Thomas
CUT MY WRISTS AND BLACK MY EYES.
Guaranteed flop.
Xavier Parker
The fucking comic is female centric. The lead protagonist is Mina Harker. She's literally the heart and the brains of the League in the field.
Lincoln Evans
The problem is, they're looking at it like accountants. They see these very historic and valuable assets/brands, and they want to see a return on them that is commensurate with their value. The problem is, there's no way to do that without fundamentally changing what the brand is about. It's impossible to make $1 Billion on a straight monster horror movie, so they have to undermine the long-term value of the brand in order to achieve the required short-term RoA.
Leo Watson
i don't care, there is way more to be done with a male centric team
Robert Parker
That's the sort of shit thinking that made the movie suck to the point of Sean Connery retiring.
Lincoln Phillips
that movie didn't even suck that hard, i actually enjoyed it quite a bit
Logan Martinez
>could make a horror cinematic universe >instead make a action film with horror monsters cinematic universe great job guys
Brandon Young
Explains a lot.
Lucas Howard
Penny Dreadful moved slow despite bashing you over the head with foreshadowing.
It made the payoff non-existent.
Isaiah Gonzalez
Lol
John Turner
>based on the inhuman villans with whom we are inherently not supposed to be able to relate to Probably never seen any of these movies huh
Jacob Thompson
LITERALLY CAME HERE FOR THIS
THAT PIC IS RIDIC LOOKS LIKE SHES TAKING A FAT OGRE SHART
James Fisher
it was a fun movie
Brayden Miller
I LIKED CAPTAIN LOO'S SUBMARINE, AND HIS TWIRLY MUSTACHE
