Jump to content

Movies & TV News/Buzz Thread


Acgott

Recommended Posts

Well I'm still looking forward to The Invisible Man.  This is how the Universal Monster universe should have been started.  Something small, but fresh.  Build on it.  Small, modern day re-tellings of the classics with modern updates.  Monster movies should not be CGI extravaganzas with huge set pieces and such like the crap The Mummy was with Cruise.  Hopefully they can build on this. 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Just now, August4th said:

the guy who directed last years upgrade is the director for Invisible man. He's also doing the remake of Escape from New York.

He's pretty talented.  All those movies have faults, but one thing he Whannel knows is violence and scares.  Insidious 3 isn't the best Insidious movie, but it's the most underrated.  Upgrade was a solid movie all things considered, and The Invisible Man looks like a nice potential world builder. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

this is the current plan for these films

Quote

They’re alive! The news broke Monday that Universal is approaching its famous monsters from a new angle, abandoning the forced connectivity of a cinematic universe and instead concentrating on bringing new life to these characters through singular, director-driven films that will be unique in terms of budget, rating, and tone. Universal is hoping to accomplish this feat alongside Jason Blum, whose studio Blumhouse has delivered some of horror’s hottest properties over the past decade.

The first project to get the greenlight is The Invisible Man, based on the 1897 H.G. Wells’ novel of the same name. The story was famously adapted by Frankenstein director James Whale in the 1933 movie starring Claude Rains, which spawned six sequels at Universal. Leigh Whannell, who has earned his horror cred as one of the minds behind Saw (2004) and Blumhouse’s Insidious franchise, and directed the techno-body horror thriller Upgrade last year, is set to make the Invisible Man visible once more with a new approach. This new approach and Universal’s collaboration with modern horror maestros like Blum and Whannell seems so obvious that it’s a wonder it’s taken this long. But the mistakes Universal has made in the past regarding these properties may hold the answers to clawing their way back to the top.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/invisible-man-can-blumhouse-save-universals-monsters-1180478

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...