Last year Universal Pictures
managed to angry the core fan base of their Classic Movie Monsters when they sent
out a press release describing their forthcoming Monsters shared universe as an
"epic-adventure", leaving out the word that helped give longevity to
the characters, horror.
Now, after promoting
the upcoming CBS series Limitless at the TCA's, Alex Kurtzman, who together with
Chris Morgan is spearheading the whole project, clarified the press release,
and confirmed that horror will still be an element of the upcoming films,
including Kurtzman's Mummy, which will be the first off the gate. Despite recently
suffering a setback that forced the studio to delay the release date by nine
months, from June 2016 to March 24, 2017, Kutzman says that the project and the
whole franchise is moving along at a good clip.
The monster universe is coming together very very
quickly, we’re very excited. There will be announcements soon. We have actually
started doing a lot of design work, we’re getting scripts in, everything is
feeling really really good, so I don’t want to curse it by saying too much to
you, but it’s going well.
As for the
aforementioned horror lapse, Kurtzman says that though fans were right to be
angry, the fact is that the shared universe will be a combination of both
horror and action-adventure.
Yeah, I think
it’s a fair response and it’s actually not — I think there was some lost in
translation quality to the way it was received, because I promise you there
will be horror in these movies. It is our life goal to make a horror movie. The
tricky part is actually how you combine horror with either adventure or
suspense or action and be true to all the genres together. In some way, Mummy,
dating all the way back to the Karloff movie, was the first to do that. It was
the first to combine horror with — I wouldn’t say action, but certainly a lot
of suspense. So it’s more about how you blend the different elements and stay
true to each one, but there will definitely be horror in the monster movies…We will hopefully serve it up good and plenty.
Finally, Kurtzman spoke of the benefits of having a writers
room when it comes to building franchises and shared universes, as well as corresponding
the right writer to the right property.
Coming out of television and having come out of
writers rooms, the thing that I got out of it, and that I learned so much from
the experience of being in the writers room, is that there’s always sort of one
or two singular voices to the show, but it’s great when you have a group of
writers who are talented in their own right coming together to build a world.
We very carefully selected writers who — each of them have their own incredible
careers. All of them we admire hugely. Chris Morgan is my partner in this and
we all picked people that we’ve worked with before, people that we really
liked, people whose work we admired, people that we didn’t know, and really
thought long and hard about which writers felt right for each monster. So our
goal is to have each movie retain the identity and the individuality of the
specific monster, but you’ll see how they start to fit into a larger universe
as the movies unravel.
Source - Collider
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