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As soon as they announced this new Universal shared universe, I've said Larry Talbot should be the glue that holds it together, as he was (unintentionally, mostly) in the previous monster rally films. If they get HIM right, this could work.
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Interesting, I took my kids to see the original on the big screen last month and they loved it.
I'm curious to see if Charles Dance is in this one as Caligula. Dracula Untold was sowing the seeds of a building story arc with Dance as the center point.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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^What did you think of Dracula Untold? I wanted to see it, but never got around to it.
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I enjoyed the film, it didn't knock me out and I understood some of the criticisms about it but I thought it was well done. Dracula is such an over told tale, that it's hard to be fresh.
As a launch point for the series, you have a super powered, much more noble, Dracula than we've seen before but he's also a sympathetic character, which is a Universal trademark.
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I agree. That and if they don't get too over-the-top with the effects. I know we won't ever get our classic Wolfman anymore, but then again we don't need another cartoony werewolf like they did in Van Helsing. I hope they keep it a little more grounded and allow him to remain part man. Seeing the Dracula Untold trailers has me thinking they're headed towards a Van Helsing style story. So it's for those reasons I remain slightly tentative on it's treatment.Comment
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While untold had it's fair amount of CG, it's vampires were all practical effects. Hopefully that trend continues....Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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I think rebooting the Wolf Man is a mistake. The 2010 film was perfect. Just bring old Larry back from the dead.Comment
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I liked aspects of Dracula Untold, but the power he had was on the crazy scale, like Superman. Silver is even used as his Kryptonite.
He actually uses colonies of bats to form a fist-like construct, similar to Green Lantern, that he orchestrates from his mountain castle to splat an opposing army.
I hope the monsters are powered down a bit in any subsequent films. If not Van Helsing won't have a chance.Comment
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..nothing will ever compare to my beloved ORIGINALS !!....if it AIN'T a toy..I DON'T WANT IT !!!
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We don't have any capes [in our film library]. But what we do have is an incredible legacy and history with the monster characters. We've tried over the years to make monster movies — unsuccessfully, actually. 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.
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^Well, any and all hope of these NOT sucking just went up in a poof of smoke like Dracula in a tanning bed...Comment
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Uggggh! Where do I begin?
I never saw "I, Frankenstein", but I don't think using it as the template for your "Marvel-style" cinematic universe is a good idea!
As for her "We don't have any capes" comment...
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Universal just doesn't have any LOVE for "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" I guess. Don't get me wrong, I love The Wolfman & Dracula...but the Creature was always my FAVORITE Monster design. Back when he was popular, Clive Barker submitted a treatment for a Creature movie...but Universal rejected it.
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