>According to Deadline, Feig is developing Dark Army, a monster movie he intends to write and direct. The story is based on his original idea, featuring classic monsters from Universal's library as well as new characters. He is set to produce the project alongside Laura Fischer for Universal Pictures.
>Originally, Universal intended to launch its own Dark Universe of interconnected films, much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, when The Mummy tanked, the studio changed its plan. Now, like Warner Bros.' new format for the DC Extended Universe, Universal is taking a filmmaker-based approach. That is to say, the projects will be largely standalone, with some "connective tissue" to Universal's other monster movies.
First they hired one of the worst writers in Hollywood to turn their HORROR franchise into capeshit-tier action schlock, and now they're trying to revive this dead franchise by hiring a closeted homosexual who does nothing but girl-power comedy. Are the execs at Universal brain-dead?
>with some "connective tissue" to Universal's other monster movies. They should throw all these movies together under dark universe brand. Van Helsing, Dracula Untold and so on. They don't have to be connected, just get one fucking name/series like with James Bond films. Dark Universe gives them more possibilities because it isn't "brand-named" like DC or Marvel.
Alexander Kelly
yikes
Jack Morgan
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW IS HE STILL GETTING WORK MAKING MULTI MILLION DOLLAR FILMS AFTER HIS DUMPSTERFIRE WHEN I CAN'T EVEN GET AN INTERVIEW FOR A JOB AS A FUCKING JANITOR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Owen Reyes
Kek so they're jumping straight to the ensemble movie since they can't get the origins movies to stick? That really worked for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Van Helsing didn't it
Paul Feig is confirmation it's going to be shit anyway
Robert Jones
>Are the execs at Universal brain-dead? Yes. That's not unique to that studio though. also >closeted homosexual That faggot is utterly open about what a degenerate homo he is.
Ian Barnes
You're wrong. He's not closeted. But agreed on everything else. Don't usually judge things before seeing them, but this is going to be Ghostbusters all over again. He literally can only make one kind of movie.
Cooper Garcia
>like MUHH DC >a filmmaker-based approach
Cringe and lying
DC doesn't have le filmster approcher. MCU actually has a "film maker based approach" with many of their new directors/writers; Gunn; Watitti, etc.
does universal not know how badly feig fucked up on ghostbusters over at sony, the man cannot make a blockbuster on budget on time
Mason Morgan
They "opened it up" which means there will be connected movies, standalone movies, big budget movies, low budget movies. They just don't want to stick with repetitive formulas. For example Phantom of the Opera can be a musical while Dracula may be a serious detective story with vampire in the background just like in the book.
Jackson Hall
>DC doesn't have le filmster approcher. >MCU actually has a "film maker based approach" with many of their new directors/writers; Kevin Feige is basically the director of the MCU and you know it.
I just want a sequel to The Mummy with Tom exploring ancient tombs and pyramids to find the cure. That's all.
Brayden Brooks
Inb4 the monsters represent toxic masculinity and the human heroes are all women and non-whites.
Grayson Nelson
A filmmaker based approach? Kind of contradicted themselves by hiring Paul Feig then. You hire Paul Feig if you want someone who will listen to the studio/producers 100% and have no voice in the actual film.
Liam Nelson
It's really impressive how Feig managed to fail at making a movie out of a popular franchise with 3 popular female comedians and leslie jones
Daniel Roberts
Wait, Paul Feig is STILL WORKING?
Carson Nguyen
Is universal universe still alive?
Cameron White
>You hire Paul Feig if you want someone who will listen to the studio/producers You forgot to mention actors: Feig is one of those "muh improv" hacks who will let his actors endlessly stretch out a scene. Improv isn't inherently bad, but Feig clearly has no idea what he wants so he lets his actors take control.
>That faggot is utterly open about what a degenerate homo he is. No actually he is married to a butch dyke who is obviously his beard. The guy doesn't have an atom of masuclinity, it's embarrassing
DC doesn't have any consistent strategy, but wonder woman would count as filmmaker approach. But I'm pretty sure both studios are using the term to mean they doesn't know what to do and lack a strategy so they're off loading the responsibility on random directors and hoping for the best.
Carter Cooper
Cool he can tank another franchise.
Jonathan Edwards
Probably no but actors have an option to be in future monster movies. Javier Bardem and Sofia Boutella are still interested in this so who knows.
Robert Richardson
It all starts with having almost zero interest or respect in the source material and no plan. Step two of the non-plan is to take absolutely any note without thought or question from any woman like the worst fag hag. But the final genius step is collecting a pay check whether the lady comedians save your movie with riffing or not.
Jace Ramirez
Well fuck me sideways with a dragon dildo. I apologize, user.
Thomas Hill
You know it.
Henry Anderson
Goddamnit. I'd be really interested in seeing a revamp of cinèma's original "shared universe", an attempt at making the classic Universal monsters scary in the 21st century, with solo films and the occasional Dracula vs. Wolfman. Why is Universal doing everything it can to stop this franchise from succeeding?
Jordan Richardson
>we'll get Feige's brother to direct this movie and it'll be great I bet that's as far as the morons at Universal thought this through.
Brandon Barnes
Executives are often basically born into their position but want to pretend they've earned it with "bold choices." Or they clawed their way up on a cocaine frenzy but are also still afraid of being outed as incompetent and maybe unnecessary. In fairness, it doesn't help when you're surrounded by weird politics and goalpost moving.
Charles Rodriguez
kek
Ian Flores
I thought he was still in movie jail
Brayden Wright
that's not the guy from the ghostbuster remake?
Ryder Mitchell
Apparently, Universal are letting him out.
Nathaniel Walker
It is.
Tyler Morris
Why in the fuck are they hiring a comedy director that couldn't even figure out how Ghostbusters worked?
You know, he might just be an effeminate bisexual. People aren't just gay or straight.
Ian Kelly
>They're calling it the mother of all flops I guess the studios needed a flop for writeoff purposes
Benjamin Russell
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUCK
Why can't Universal get it through their heads?! We don't want capeshit with Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster. We want this franchise to be straight horror movies like they originally were.
Dracula Untold was capeshit (these bats still give me headache) but the mummy was pretty much gothic horror story. It could be fucking perfect movie if no Jekyll/Hyde stuff.
Michael Morgan
I get what you're saying, but we're really just fag hag(gling) now.
Henry Powell
>Dark Universe is back baby! > Feig RIP Dark Universe
Aiden Harris
>put the guy who did Ghostbusters 2016 in charge of the reboot of the failed reboot of your monster movie universe
Holy fucking shit who are calling the shots over at Universal?
bunch of fucking retards. Hollywood cant burn fast enough.
Eli Nelson
Hi i run universal and i hear you. I'm gonna make a change to the movies to be more horror again. Thanks bud.
Adam Mitchell
Well with all the jews in it should actually go rly fast, 6 million went poof in 2 years.
Mason Price
CUZ HE'S A JEW
Wake the fuck up, Hollywood is run by incompetent Jews hiring other incompetent Jews.
Brandon Russell
Good lord.
The irony is that it would legitimately behoof them better to listen to some random retard in this thread than to whatever bullshit the peer market research crap has shat out for the clueless executive boomers at the top to follow.
Eli Carter
Do people rly like those cringy horrors? I never got scared by the movie since Alien and X-files and I was in prime school back than.
Ryder Harris
I think that's why Uni wants adventure horrors. These old characters are not scary anymore.
Joshua Jackson
>anymore Since 1900.
Blake Butler
I love when he confessed that he was called Paul Fag during all is youth.
Wolfman would have been a better connecting thread for a Universal Monsters universe then just lazily putting Jekyll in charge of SHIELD. His old character arc of going from just wanting to die to "Fuck it, if I have to live forever, I might as well stop even worse monsters from wreaking havoc" is a better skeleton to hang monster capeshit on.
Easton Flores
They screwed it up and lost lots of top tier actors in the process but this is honestly a better idea than simply remaking them into small stand alone movies because we've seen that before many times done better. The only novelty is having a proper crossover. Bigger and better than ever before which wouldn't be a big accomplishment.
Easton Sanchez
>and lost lots of top tier actors in the process Not really. Yaggsparro guy still wants to be Frankenstein's monster. They just booted Johnny Depp because.. you know, Amber issues.
Yeah. If audience doesn't care about origin stories then they will skip them.
Gavin Gomez
Obviously, none of those monsters have been scary in decades, but there's a certain charm to those old monster movies. Also, if Universal hired the right people, they could make those monsters scary again. You can scoff and claim that's impossible, but keep in mind that Pennywise is the biggest horror icon of the 2010s, and those awful Annabelle flicks always make a ton of money at the box office. If modern audiences can be spooked by a clown and a doll, then they can be spooked by the old Universal monsters.
Andrew Perez
The Mummy was Capeshit with Tom Cruise and quips, don’t even try to lie
Jonathan Robinson
Monsters do not need origin stories. They work even better when we do not know about them. Dracula and mummy are perfect examples of ancient evil mystery. If you add origin story you end up with shit like Dracula Untold or that one with Reeves where they turned him into tragic lover. >an evil creature wants to sacrifice someone to summon some kind of supernatural force That's by-the-numbers gothic horror theme. Gothic horror focuses on supernatural suspense, things that can not be explained at all. It's all about relation between humans and the world of the dead, often involving romance on the edge of death.
Jackson White
Now that Hugh is done with X-Men, Universal should bring back Based Stephen Sommers to make Van Helsing 2.
I'm genuinely surprised this guy is getting another shot at big budget filmmaking after making the dumpster fire NuGhostbusters.
Adrian Mitchell
Great point. Clowns and dolls. The right execution could do it. But this is feigooo we're talking about. So that won't happen.
Aaron Sanchez
Underrated kino
Ryan Robinson
It was an unironically good movie.
Zachary Williams
>Yes - mummy aliens! In what I think can be a billion dollar idea...
Ethan Martin
Universal is literally retarded. They fucked it up with releasing Mummy in 2017. Should've wait for Avengers to end and THEN fill the gap with their monster universe. Also they should use viral marketing. It's very important in social media era.
The original mummy film was succesfull because Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutunkhamun few years before. Then he and his team died some time later because of microbes and media turned it into "curse" of pharaoh. Hollywood decided to cash on it too.
Now the new movie could be a hit too because there's some interesting find in Egypt every year. Universal should've used that as a part of marketing. Do you remember mysterious black sarcophagus? They should've used it to promote the movie. How about some more recent discovery - they found a tomb of some priestess or princess/queen. This could be used too.
