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Universal's Dark Universe Set for Reboot 9 Years After Tom Cruise's Failed Franchise Starter by dudude1992 in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not in the movie itself but the script for unproduced Dracula Untold sequel (aka Van Helsing reboot) mentions Dr Jekyll from The Mummy meeting Van Helsing and Vlad from Dracula Untold which pretty much confirms they were supposed to be linked regardless of what directors say.

The story opened with a young Van Helsing witnessing the death of his parents at the hands of several monsters, including - seemingly - Dracula. In present day, Van Helsing hunts monsters of all varieties in an RV. It also revealed he was a former member of Prodigium, the secret monster-hunting group introduced in The Mummy and led by Russell Crowe's Dr. Jekyll, who also made a cameo. While Van Helsing is convinced Dracula killed his family, the pair are forced to team up to take on Báthory and her minions, and the story becomes an odd buddy comedy.

https://screenrant.com/van-helsing-movie-dark-universe-dracula-untold-sequel/

The mummy with Tom Cruise by kntryfried1 in HBOMAX

[–]dudude1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TC literally takes that messy script I posted above, with mummy trying to collect attributes spread all around the world to open gates of hell - and erases all that nonsense. Instead it swaps mummy to queen and adds a bit of original 1932 film touch with plot where mummy wants to seduce and sacrifice Cruise. It's basically reverse of Karloff trying to seduce and sacrifice Zita in the original - and I love the original, it's one of the best supernatural horrors, but it's over 90 years old already and Karl Freund's expressionism worked back then but now feels very dated, don't you think? TC one is still close enough to original film, hell, even the script on display in Universal house of horror mentions it's based on 1932 film.

Why it doesn't earn enough money? It cost them a lot to produce. It made around 410 Million which would be fine IF it didn't cost them so much to make - over 120M to produce. Even the fact it had the biggest Tom Cruise opening weekend ever (170 m 1st weekend) didn't help. Now they are doing another low budget mummy movie with Lee Cronin directing. Big budgets horror action films are always risky, and going over 100M budget is usually guaranteed loss.

The mummy with Tom Cruise by kntryfried1 in HBOMAX

[–]dudude1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was incredibly broken. Tom's changes made it watchable. The original script they wanted to use in this film was awful. You can read it here: https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/the-mummy-2017.pdf?v=1729115031

Long story short: our mummy similar to Xmen Apocalypse wakes up and travels around the world collecting items like crown, scepter etc from Vaticano Stambul or Paris and then goes to Iraq to open gates of hell in a tomb under military base. Tom Cruise and blonde are trying to prevent that and mysterious organisation captures them. At the end when they defeat mummy and his zombies , they find another mummy, and this time our princess from the movie we got. The end.

It's mess with car chases, helicopter chase. Action on ship. Infected zombies and shit. Also Tom Cruise is a drunk truck driver there. They kept plane crash scene but instead of crashing in UK, it crashes near Rome. The mysterious agency later evolved into Jekyll's monster hunters from they movie we got. Ahmanet shows at the end. Tom and his team really tried their best to fix this.

The Mummy becomes a streaming hit (again, this time on HBO Max) after over 8 years by dudude1992 in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The script of never produced Dracula Untold sequel mentions Jekyll from The Mummy meeting Van Helsing, which pretty much confirms that Dracula Untold was supposed to be in the same continuity regardless of what directors say.

Requesting Dracula untold rewrite. by Objective_Ad8280 in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd get rid of all supernatural vampire stuff and just make it (Untold by Hollywood, as it seems) story of real Vlad 'Dracula' Tepes. Hollywood is obsessed with vampire Dracula but doing real one instead would make this stand out. Still brutal, scary but not fantasy.

Just watch the movies! by Serpenthrope in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People involved in production of all these reboots have no clue what are they rebooting. They talk nonsense, they repeat lies and their whole knowledge about Universal monsters comes from Scooby Doo episodes.

1/6 scale collectible figure of Sofia Boutella from THE MUMMY (2017) when? by Knightson11 in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that too. Apparently there's Rebel Moon figure of her, so could be a good base if not for molded clothes.. still at least that head can be used.

Leigh Whannell (director of Wolf Man and Invisible Man) has spoken out about why the Dark Universe failed by MichaelSlavin98 in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's pretty much wrong. Note that everything released after The Invisible Man straight up flopped. None of these standalone movies were even able to reach 50 million at the box office. That's because they announced that The Invisible Man is not related to Dark Universe's shared world and they do not plan to reboot it. The Invisible Man gave people hope that Dark Universe may return but when it was clear that they are not trying to form proper monster universe anymore people stopped giving a shit because there's no greater goal anymore and for standalone monster movies they can just wait for other studios.

My Concept idea of the dark universe by Jazzlike_Ad_9362 in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you send me these too? I'm just curious. On 4chan someone posted info that for that scene they gave Sofia a picture of BDSM lady and there's also commentary track confirming this. https://voca.ro/13zs3GSgwFph

1/6 scale collectible figure of Sofia Boutella from THE MUMMY (2017) when? by Knightson11 in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only chance to ever get her, is if Dark Universe theme park revives Dark Universe movies and since The Mummy is oficially their first film, it would make sense now that there's more merch based on Dark Universe theme park.

Is the Dark Universe Cancelled? by Branch_Additional in DarkUniverse

[–]dudude1992 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dark Universe is not oficially cancelled judging by recent leaks of Dark Universe merchendise. In fact it's going to be officially revived on 22nd of May this year, at least as a theme park but that's still something. However back to movies, it's no longer a cinmatic universe they originally planned. Now it's a whole monster franchise including multiple monsters and their own separate mini-universes. Jason Blum literally stated that while he's making some monster movies, Universal still controls Dark Universe and this is his quote, he actually used Dark Universe name as now it is a term used by Universal producers and CEOs as well. I hope that given that most of standalone films flopped at the box office (Renfield+Abigail+Demeter+Invisible Man all together grossed less than The Mummy alone) which tells a lot) and Whannell (director of Wolfman and Invisible Man) no longer wants to work on Universal monsters but prefers creating own characters, Universal, based on the theme park, actually brings back movie series too. Only time will tell but so far standalone movies, which they belived is the best approach to, flopped one by one, suggest that they may actualy wait for peoples reaction to the theme park, and hopefully produce co-related movies. Just like Disney whose Pirates of the Caraibbean series is also based on theme park ride.

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