Audiences have already witnessed the success of Marvel to bring together each of their properties by not only releasing individual movies, but TV shows (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and a team-up film (The Avengers) as well. That success has evidently rubbed off on other studios as Lucasfilm is releasing a new main Star Wars trilogy as well as spin-offs, and Universal Studios is rumored to be planning a "Monster Mash" of sorts with a horror universe filled with their classic horror characters.
Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the writer/producer duo behind The Amazing Spiderman series, are currently producing reboots for both Van Helsing and The Mummy. In an interview with IGN they were asked about the upcoming reboots in regards to what could be expected. Roberto Orci responded by saying: "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 [with] 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 could 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."
From that statement, it sure seems like the plan is to create a full monster universe with their whole catalog of classic monsters. While overall I am not a huge horror/monster movie fan, I would actually be kind of interested to see if this concept would actually work. I enjoyed the Mummy series, and despite it not being a big success, I also kind of liked Van Helsing. I would love to see both back on the big screen. Personally, I would love to see a return to classic horror, in the same vein as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Bram Stoker's Dracula. To me that era seems best suited for most, if not all, of Universal's list of monsters. Still, it might also be interesting to see what else Orci and Kurtzman can come up with to update these monsters and connect each of them within the same universe.
If a shared monster universe is what Universal is planning with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci in the producer's chairs, then it will most likely begin with the reboots of The Mummy and Van Helsing. Unless of course Kurtzman and Orci end up being producers for 2015's Dracula Untold, in which case Dracula's origin story will jumpstart the process.
Source: IGN and Screen Rant
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