Universal Horror shared Universe (2017-soon)

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a mouthful of draculas

scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link

Collective noun
'Coven' has been used as a collective noun for vampires, possibly based on the Wiccan usage. An alternative collective noun is a 'house' of vampires.(128) David Malki, author of Wondermark, suggests in Wondermark No. 566 the use of the collective noun 'basement', as in "A basement of vampires."(129)

Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link

Wiccan usage, like those loons could even spell their own names

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 April 2017 07:16 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

just reading up on this because I was finally subjected to the mummy trailer. these movies are going to be a money bonfire.

your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Monday, 8 May 2017 01:01 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

i'm sure Frankenstein is going to be a superspeedy brute force killing machine that says monosyllabic one-liners

Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 June 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

You know what would be a really good idea? Rebooting the Universal Monsterverse! Think about it: Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf-man, Bride of Frankenstein, Mummy, Invisible Man ... they're monsters! It writes itself.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link

Friends forever

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/dark-universe-cast-may-2017_universal.jpg

jmm, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link

What a hunk of high profile pop culture detritus that photo is.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link

really regretting my decision to watch the tom cruise mummy twice in the last three weeks now

drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link

would you rather watch some behind-the-scenes video of that photo shoot or eat a roll of tinfoil?

phenibut rock (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link

Noooooooo, now I will never see Stephen Dorff's Creature from the Black Lagoon team up with Kevin Corrigan's Dracula to battle Tom Sizemore's Igor!

Bernard Crunderdunder (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link

Bizarro- why twice?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:53 (six years ago) link

surely the live action Looney Tunes cinematic universe must be due soon

the intentional phallusy (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link

X-Men: First Class scribes Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are going a little looney, and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa may soon join them.

The power writing duo has been hired to write the untitled Acme movie project being developed by Warner Bros. At the same time, Ficarra and Requa, who directed Crazy Stupid Love for the studio, are in early negotiations to direct the project, which has its roots in Warners' classic Looney Tunes cartoons.

Steve Carell, who toplined Crazy Stupid Love, is attached to star in the project, which is being produced by Dan Lin and Roy Lee. The latter two were behind the mega-successful and franchise-launching The Lego Movie, and the studio and producers are envisioning the Acme project as an event movie that will also launch a franchise.

Plot details are being kept under an anvil, but the Acme Corporation is a fictional manufacturer of crazy and sometimes dangerous products (that also tend to malfunction at the most inopportune times) that are used by many a Looney Tunes character. The company's products are most commonly used by Wile E. Coyote in his never-ending quest to capture the Road Runner.

The movie, however, would not center on the Looney Tunes characters and is being planned as a CG/live-action hybrid.

from 3 years ago though :(

Number None, Wednesday, 8 November 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link

I finally saw Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and it was awesome.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 November 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link

There's an awful 90s video film that seems like the writers went on strike and the bosses had to write it themselves. Some of the worst garbage I've seen from a major company, like shockingly amateurish.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link

Space Jam was rad.

they should just remake that. it even has ironic/magic Bill Murray.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 November 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link

Bizarro- why twice?

first time was on a plane with a limited selection of movies i han't already seen, second time was with my wife who refused to believe my reporting of how shitty and tin-eared the introduction of tom cruise's character is - once we started watching she wanted to see how much worse it could get so i ended up sitting through the whole thing again

have we talked about cruise's intro itt? he and jake johnson are allegedly-charming special forces rogues who steal antiquities from the middle east. we meet them fighting isis for control of a site of historical and archaelogical importance. they get in over their heads and are only saved by calling in an airstrike which... atomises the site of historical and archaelogical importance

tfw when you aim to write a lovable han solo character and end up overshooting the mark and have him help isis achieve their goals instead :(

drinkmaster sealcup at yr service (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 November 2017 09:28 (six years ago) link

Gritty reboot of isis in syrian civil war universe

But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 9 November 2017 09:34 (six years ago) link


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