{"id":78493,"date":"2015-08-11T14:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=78493"},"modified":"2015-08-11T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:27:37","slug":"universal-monster-movies-reboots-will-be-horror-partly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/universal-monster-movies-reboots-will-be-horror-partly\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal monster movies reboots will be horror, partly"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_78494\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78494\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-78494\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/the-mummy-616x385.jpg\" alt=\"Boris Karloff in The Mummy\" width=\"616\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/the-mummy.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/the-mummy-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/the-mummy-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boris Karloff in The Mummy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We all made a collective sound like someone getting murdered by an ancient, recently reawoken evil (well, we did anyway) when it was reported that Universal&#8217;s upcoming monster movie reboots\/remakes\/reimaginings would be more action oriented than horror.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the TCAs (via <a href=\"http:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/news\/3356820\/upcoming-universal-monster-movies-will-horror-just-action\/\">Bloody Disgusting<\/a>), Alex Kurtzman, who is currently working on <strong><em>The Mummy<\/em><\/strong>, stated that the lack of horror was perhaps overstated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there was some lost in translation quality to the way it was received, because I promise you there will be horror in these movies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is our life goal to make a horror movie. The tricky part is actually how you combine horror with either adventure or suspense or action and be true to all the genres together. In some way, <strong><em>Mummy<\/em><\/strong>, dating all the way back to the Karloff movie, was the first to do that. It was the first to combine horror with \u2014 I wouldn\u2019t say action, but certainly a lot of suspense. So it\u2019s more about how you blend the different elements and stay true to each one, but there will definitely be horror in the monster movies\u2026We will hopefully serve it up good and plenty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kurtzman stepped in as director of <strong><em>The Mummy<\/em><\/strong> after <strong><em>Mama<\/em><\/strong> director Andr\u00e9s Muschietti dropped out, allegedly due to the fact that the film was moving away from the horror he envisioned. The film\u00a0is being written by Jon Spaihts (<strong><em>Prometheus<\/em><\/strong>). Meanwhile, Noah Hawley, who did fantastic work with the <strong><em>Fargo<\/em><\/strong> TV series, is also writing an as-yet unnamed Universal monster movie.<\/p>\n<p>So it remains to be seen just exactly what the tone is for these films. We&#8217;re certainly hoping for something better than <strong><em>Dracula Untold<\/em><\/strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em>which went for action fantasy over horror and ended up being a disappointing mishmash of the two, complete with a clunky, sequel-friendly coda. No more like that, please.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Mummy<\/em> will be released on 24 March 2017. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3735\/s\/scifinow-issue-109\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Kurtzman insists that the Universal monster movie remakes won&#8217;t just be action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":78494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[797,651,4640],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/the-mummy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}