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Dark Universe to add Hunchback of Notre Dame & Phantom of the Opera to its roster.
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yanipheonu
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This is all sounding like some dumb, cynical Hollywood BS. I kinda love it. It's the Monster Schlock of the Cinematic Universe Era.
TheJollyCorner
Member
No, DePalma's!
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Can't wait for Dank Universe to exist.
Fancyarcher
Member
Good luck with that when The Mummy will kill the universe attempts again. Everything suggests it's a turkey.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Yeah...
No.
No.
Poor GRIMES
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Why do these companies always get so carried away and announce the launch of a universe so early? At least make a few movies and see if there's a chance of it catching on.
They want to cader fans.
Imagine Frankenstein Fans out there. The chanche is pretty high that you get more people into the Mummy when they know that #itsallconnected.
Hell, if I would care about these things I would act similar
Just watched the final trailer for The Mummy. Absolutely horrible.
The "mummy" is a half-naked hot girl covered in white and some random tatoos who is so clearly sexualized. Because of course they wouldn't have a non-supermodel, decrepit female, it doesn't matter she's a goddamn mummy. But hey, double iris!! So monstruous and scary.
Then you have the completely hilarious, SyFy level CGI. Like really? That zombie in the car is particularly pathetic.
Lfmao is this 1997?
And what's with the weird tone? Sometimes it looks like a horror movie where everybody is dying and everything's darker than a DCEU movie, next scene you're seeing some terrible jokes (c'mon! kick her ass!! ---- gets kicked by her) wow so funny!
All in all, it looks like utter trash and I hope it bombs. I knew it would never be able to top 1999's mummy, but I didn't expect it to be THIS terrible.
The "mummy" is a half-naked hot girl covered in white and some random tatoos who is so clearly sexualized. Because of course they wouldn't have a non-supermodel, decrepit female, it doesn't matter she's a goddamn mummy. But hey, double iris!! So monstruous and scary.
Then you have the completely hilarious, SyFy level CGI. Like really? That zombie in the car is particularly pathetic.
Lfmao is this 1997?
And what's with the weird tone? Sometimes it looks like a horror movie where everybody is dying and everything's darker than a DCEU movie, next scene you're seeing some terrible jokes (c'mon! kick her ass!! ---- gets kicked by her) wow so funny!
All in all, it looks like utter trash and I hope it bombs. I knew it would never be able to top 1999's mummy, but I didn't expect it to be THIS terrible.
How many do we have right now?
Marvel, DC, Godzilla/Monsterverse, Dark Universe, Hasbro universe, Transformers, Sony's upcoming Spider-Man-without-Spider-Man universe.
The Last Wizard
Member
Yup, no soul or identity.
They're still trying to force these big names to headline too smh.
slightconfuse
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Sure why not put more carts before the horse
So, you are saying that the Phantom of the Opera/Hunchback of Notre Dame fanbase is large enough and cares enough to go see Mummy this weekend because they want to see how a man who plays a pipe organ with half a face is going to interact with an undead Egyptian sorceress?
This is the dumbest idea of a shared universe. And that includes Hasbro.
Seeing this movie bomb is going to be so satisfying....even more so than watching Power Rangers tank out.
These properties were never strong enough to support $150M blockbuster budgets....I don't see how an idea this terrible made it past the drawing board. And now they're announcing new additions that aren't even monsters-- Hunchback of Notre Dame? WTF?
These properties were never strong enough to support $150M blockbuster budgets....I don't see how an idea this terrible made it past the drawing board. And now they're announcing new additions that aren't even monsters-- Hunchback of Notre Dame? WTF?
Thats what I am expect these marketing people are thinking.
Star Trek.
Okay people, we need to learn to start distinguishing a "Cinematic Universe" from a common, run of the mill movie franchise.
Star Trek is a more connected Cinematic Universe then the MCU.
The Star Trek TV shows are as important as the movies and treated with way more respect then anything running on ABC.
Even the Abramverse is connected to the Original TV Show.
Inferno313
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That's not a "cinematic universe" though. That's a franchise of various TV series and a singular film franchise. I mean, you can't call it a cinematic universe when 80% of it's content isn't "cinema."
It's not the same thing as the MCU or any of these other things.
When I think cinematic universe, I'm thinking about multiple film franchises that tie together into an uber crossover franchise: solo Marvel heroes -> Avengers, solo DC heroes -> Justice League, solo Godzilla and solo Kong -> Godzilla vs. Kong, etc. Star Trek is just the one series of movies with the same set of characters.
They don't have to go full monster, I thought Broadway's depiction was a good in-between
These TV series and Movies are interconnected. Khan wasnt something they came up with for the movie. Khan and Kirk had their first entcounter on the TV show. The whole First Contact Movie revolves around Picard and his relationship to the Borg and that he was turned into a Borg once. And so on, I am no Trekkie, but its definitly more connected then "a franchise of various TV series and a singular film franchise", other who are more into the material can most likely point out more details.
If Star Trek would start today and play out exactly as is did, we would label it with Cinematic Universe.
Just look into this thread. The Universal Monstermovies were indeed the Proto-Cinematic Universe, but nobody would label it so, but it was just 70 years to early to call it so, and still everyone was crossing over with everyone else.
Proff, you're completely off point on this.
Star Trek is a television franchise that has spun-off into movie adaptations over the years as a natural means of expansion. A Cinematic Universe (hence the word "Cinematic"), is in reference to a series of separate, self-contained stories in film that adhere to the same continuity which intentionally introduces elements or characters with the explicit intention of bringing them together at a later date. Going by your definition, you would have to consider any kind of media franchise which utilizes spin-offs or expansive media (Despicable Me, the Lego Franchise, 21 Jump Street) as as a "Cinematic Universe", which is a willful misuse of the term. A media franchise isn't the same thing as a Cinematic Universe, it just relates to an expansive fictional universe that happens to use different story-telling platforms.
Inferno313
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I mean, Star Trek's chronology and timeline is impressive, but it doesn't make it a "cinematic universe." It's traditionally been a franchise that has had one TV series going at a time (for a part of it's history, two at a time) and a singular line of films. It's a franchise that has held incredibly tightly to it's own chronology, which is really cool, but that doesn't make it a "cinematic universe."
When we've reached a point where Kirk, Spock, Sulu and Uhura are each getting their own solo movies that all take place in a shared continuity with the mainline Star Trek franchise, that's when it can be called a Cinematic Universe, imo.
sturgboski
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Come on DCEU took 3 films before finding a hit on their 4th. Why is everyone shitting on this so quickly?
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Frankenstein meets Cthulu
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WOWOWOWOWOWORRRUERUERUEUR
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WOWOWOWORURUEIRUEIRUEIURIEURIU
Probably because no one wants to sit through 3 bad movies before this thing justifies its investment.
Better make a Cthulhu Movieverse on its own. Lovecrafts books are rich enough to have multiple movies that all add small pieces to the cake and culmulate into a big The Call of Cthulhu Eventmovie.
Problem is, when they try to make it big and want to get everyone in the cinema, its going to be shit.
Problem is, when they try to make it big and want to get everyone in the cinema, its going to be shit.
BassForever
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#teamphantom
And before someone says something, I am completly aware that this may be a silly complaint, but if a filmmaker can kill my interest in a monster movie, then he has to call the Monster Frankenstein. Its not a big thing in the grand scheme of things, but it shows that you lack the respect for the material.
HP_Wuvcraft
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I don't know why people put energy into shit like hating fiction.
I'm gonna wait this one out for the Home release, I think i'll go see Wonder Woman now only, i was gonna see both but recently i been thikning nah, i can only go to the cinema once this month.
Shame really Dracula Untold was alright, and yet it has nothing to do with this now, maybe they should have waited to see how The Mummy turned out at the Box office before announcing even anything further.
Shame really Dracula Untold was alright, and yet it has nothing to do with this now, maybe they should have waited to see how The Mummy turned out at the Box office before announcing even anything further.
Yeah, well the first 3 crapfests still made WB hundreds of millions. If The Mummy stinks, it will flat out bomb.
Because they love stuff. At least its the reason on my side. I would give so much for a regular schedule of classic Monstermovies, set in the end of the 19th century or at the start of the 20th, all with big castles and classic designs. I am starving to death for a good classic Vampire movie not feature sparkling dudes and girls and current day approaches. I think the last one decent must have been Bram Stokers Dracula with Garry Oldman? That one must be around 20 years old now.
Someone else mentioned Key and Peele
I would watch the fuck out of Key and Peele Meet Frankenstein
...oh man, this would be genius.
SchrodingerC
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It depends which interpretation they decide, the Broadway(more human), the book(more grotesque), or a new interpretation all together.
Though honestly if they used De Palma's version of the Phantom I'd be hype for the DU.
thequestion
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Should they of shot these dark universe films in gothic black and white to help set them apart and give them a unique retro feel? It might of helped, maybe?