Last month, Geekin' Out speculated about the possibility of a shared cinematic universe for the classic Universal Studios monsters.
Now there're the first official rumblings that suggest that this could well be something that is in the pipeline.
In an interview with IGN, Roberto Orci, who along with Alex Kurtzman is currently helming remakes of Van Helsing and The Mummy , seemed to drop hints that he too would be in favour of such a project.
"There's an interesting thing that could happen at Universal
where they have this amazing library of their old monsters and these
kinds of heroes, and the idea of trying to create a universe. Van
Helsing, and we're also producing The Mummy for them. We're kind of
imagining updating these kinds of things. You don't want to just make
remakes when you're doing a thing, unless it's worthy of being a remake,
but when you have an idea for something that can actually be made
different and yet be true to what it was. We just had a notion of how to
make it modern and have a slightly different tone. It's not going to be
just a remake."Crucially, when asked about his favourite Universal monster, Orci didn't mention one of the franchises currently in the works, implying he's not yet done with the studio and their freaky stars: "I love Frankenstein just cause it's such a twisted, complicated monster. A monster that's not really a monster."
The classic Universal monster movies remain amongst the very best creature features ever produced, so please, Universal, make this happen.
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