Board 8 > Universal Dark Universe Bridge of Frankenstein remake postponed

(+) Yeah! (+)

Sounds like they may be rethinking the cinematic universe idea since no one cared about the Mummy.

http://www.slashfilm.com/bride-of-frankenstein-postponed-is-the-dark-universe-dead/
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I didn't know Frankenstein switched to civil engineering.
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I still don't understand why they didn't focus on smaller properties, make them quality movies with a solid and fun lead character in each movie (like a cop in one movie, a scientist in another, an adventurer, etc.), then have teases of other franchises in their movies. But make them quality movies first and foremost to get buzz. And then when you have all these super likable leads who all have different skill sets and personalities, you just make a big dumb giant monster movie where there's a bunch of them.

Just copy the god damn Marvel formula. I don't get why they're making this so much more intricate and harder than it needs to be.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I still don't understand why they didn't focus on smaller properties, make them quality movies with a solid and fun lead character in each movie (like a cop in one movie, a scientist in another, an adventurer, etc.), then have teases of other franchises in their movies. But make them quality movies first and foremost to get buzz. And then when you have all these super likable leads who all have different skill sets and personalities, you just make a big dumb giant monster movie where there's a bunch of them.

Just copy the god damn Marvel formula. I don't get why they're making this so much more intricate and harder than it needs to be.

Because they want to make the Avengers as quickly as possible and make people realize it's a franchise and not stand alone movies.
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They failed from the start when The Mummy was terrible. Awful plot and pretty bad acting too. I'm not sure that movie did anything well

swordz9 posted...

They failed from the start when The Mummy was terrible. Awful plot and pretty bad acting too. I'm not sure that movie did anything well

No, they failed the first time when Dracula Untold was terrible.

The Mummy was their second attempt.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

swordz9 posted...

They failed from the start when The Mummy was terrible. Awful plot and pretty bad acting too. I'm not sure that movie did anything well

No, they failed the first time when Dracula Untold was terrible.

The Mummy was their second attempt.

Dracula Untold was a hell of a lot better than The Mummy. It was actually pretty decent, particularly Charles Dance.
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Because studio execs are greedy people who probably don't even watch movies.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

swordz9 posted...

They failed from the start when The Mummy was terrible. Awful plot and pretty bad acting too. I'm not sure that movie did anything well

No, they failed the first time when Dracula Untold was terrible.

The Mummy was their second attempt.

I admittedly forgot that one, but it was a much better movie than this. If only we got another of the Frasier Mummy movies or something instead. Now there was a likable and funny leading character. Cruise's character was terrible

Don't know why this is even a thing

After Dracula bombed and they were like "wait no that's not part of the universe anymore" did they seriously think they'd recover from that?
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swordz9 posted...

They failed from the start when The Mummy was terrible. Awful plot and pretty bad acting too. I'm not sure that movie did anything well

That trailer where they accidentally left out all sound but the over the top effects was amazing.
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