Universal Taking Horror Out of Universal Monster Movies
Steve Barton
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We’ve been talking about Universal’s decision to release new versions of some of its more prominent horror franchises and then release an Avengers-type film starring them all for a while now. Today during a roundtable discussion their direction for these films has been unveiled… and we’re not exactly happy about it either.
“We’ve tried over the years to make monster movies — unsuccessfully, actually,” admits Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley. “So, we took a good, hard look at it, and we settled upon an idea, which is to take it out of the horror genre, put it more in the action-adventure genre and make it present day, bringing these incredibly rich and complex characters into present day and reimagine them and reintroduce them to a contemporary audience.”
Make sense? Depends on how you look at it. Know what else makes sense? Taking these wonderful horror franchises and making good movies instead of abandoning their roots and heritage. Stop making silly decisions like trying to turn Van Helsing into a superhero or hiring Rick Baker to do Wolfman effects and then opting for a CGI transformation. Or how about giving directors who actually care about these movies a shot at making them?
Then again… what do I know?
Sigh.
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