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Tom Cruise To Rediscover THE MUMMY For Universal

Universal Pictures has been keen on reamping its Monsterverse for a while now, with particular respect to last year’s origin thriller, Dracula Untold with Luke Evans. Since then the studio had already begun developing a reboot of The Mummy apart from its preceding trilogy which starred Brendan Fraser, with Chris Morgan joining fellow producer Alex Kurtzman who will also direct the reboot. Alas, what better way to reinvigorate a franchise properly other than to cast a big name actor to set things straight? As of this week and according to sources informing Variety, that would be actor Tom Cruise, currently knee-deep into filming Jack Reacher 2: Never Go Back and already planning things for the August 2016 production of the sixth Mission: Impossible film. Jon Sphaits is providing the script which will set The Mummy in present day and will coincide with other Monsterverse characters in later films centered on […]

Universal's Monsterverse Adds Brit List's JAY BASU

Lee B. Golden III

It’s taken a few years to work on, but with Gary Shores’s Dracula Untold now off-setting Universal Pictures’s slate of monster reboot flicks as of October, producers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan are ready to move things forward just a bit more. That said, word from Deadline has it that Jay Basu is being added to help devlop the studio’s cinematic monsterverse, with Kurtzman already lined up to helm a reboot of The Mummy for the studio. Despite being an unknown, Basu‘s name was one that stood out from The Brit List – a list of unproduced screenplays and their writers much like The Black List. He has just a few publicly known credits according to SuperHeroHype, including co-writing the 2011 drama, The Pier, co-directing Monsters: Dark Continent, and completing a Brit List script for GBH (Grosse Bodily Harm), a 70’s crime thriller with Dredd 3D helmer Pete Travis set […]

Vlad Rises In A New IMAX Poster For DRACULA UNTOLD!

Lee B. Golden III

It’s only a matter of days now before movie goers take the first step into Universal Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse with Gary Shore‘s directorial feature debut, Dracula Untold. The film bows in North America this Friday and will finally do so in both 2D and on IMAX screens, and to accommodate this, we now have a brand new IMAX poster for the film which you can check out just beneath, in addition to the most recent IMAX featurette just beneath: Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6, Immortals) stars in Dracula Untold, the origin story of the man who became Dracula. Gary Shore directs and Michael De Luca produces the epic action-adventure that co-stars Sarah Gadon, Dominic Cooper, Diarmaid Murtagh and Samantha Barks. The IMAX release of Dracula Untold will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear […]