Tom Cruise is Van Helsing?

[Rowsdower!]

Hey, you know what will never, ever happen?

Hollywood casting a Dutch actor as Van Helsing.

 

[OsGom]

I still say Daniel Craig should play Van Helsing. I would cast Clive Owen as Dracula.

I wouldn't necessarily have Van Helsing take on every Universal Monster in one movie. But I would deffinitely give Dracula an army of vampires that Van Helsing will have to fight through in order to get to the count.

Maybe a franchise of movies, with Van Helsing battling a different monster in each movie (The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, etc). That could be cool. And it wouldn't be trying to force too many different monsters into one movie.

And I like the idea of giving Van Helsing and Dracula a personal vendetta with each other. That should deffinitely be one of the focuses of the movie.

Clive Owen is an excellent an actor but, to date, has mainly portrayed gruff characters who are rough around the edges. It's hard to envision him playing the suave, noble and Romanian Dracula. Not to say he isn't capable. It's just hard for me to envision it because the characters he has traditionally played have been more the opposite.
Actor but I don't think he fits the profile of the dashing and sophisticated Dracula

 

[Sawyer]

Hey, you know what will never, ever happen?

Hollywood casting a Dutch actor as Van Helsing.

Not Dutch, but awesome enough to make me not care. If only...

I hope they mean business with this. We don't need another Sommers-y action adventure ****fest.

 

[Gabe99]

Universal Chairman Wants 'Fifty Shades' for Summer 2014, More 'Bourne' and 'Van Helsing' Reboot (Q&A)

THR: Was the Hasbro deal a mistake?

Fogelson: It certainly didn't work out as the dealmakers on either side envisioned it. But I'm not sure I would say the deal was a mistake, or if I were sitting in this chair at that time that I wouldn't have strongly considered it.

THR: Tom Cruise's last movie, Jack Reacher, wasn't a big hit and you've got him in Oblivion in April. Worried?

Fogelson: There's virtually no star out there right now in the modern age who doesn't have some movies that perform better and some that perform less well. We think this kind of movie is in Tom's wheelhouse. We made it for an incredibly responsible price [$120 million]. We love the way it's looking. And Tom will do everything that we collectively feel is in the best interest of selling the movie.

THR: In December you've got 47 Ronin, the $175 million-budgeted Keanu Reeves samurai movie, which has been delayed and plagued by reshoots. Do you believe Reeves is still a major action star?

Fogelson: Keanu Reeves has been very selective over the years in the sort of big action franchises he has chosen to involve himself in. And when he's done it, he has been, on a global level, incredibly successful. We're excited that this is the one he's chosen for this part of his career and think that every time he comes back to any version of this genre, it has been remarkably consistent.

Adam Fogelson:
As a studio, because we have not had a Marvel library, a DC library, a Bond franchise, we've had to home-grow virtually all of it. Universal monsters are probably the thing people most equate with our library. But monsters are not superheroes. Virtually every monster story is by definition a tragic story. We are developing another Mummy. We are looking at rebooting Van Helsing because I think the idea for the Van Helsing story was a great way of solving the question of, "How do you make a blockbuster out of monsters?"

 

[Wolfwood]

Those are some pretty good questions and Fogelson handled them reasonably well. Here's to hoping they give their Universal Monsters a bit more lovin'.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Jack Reacher cost $60 million and has made over $200 million. It wasn't a big hit, but it did very well.

 

[dark_b]

Jack Reacher cost $60 million and has made over $200 million. It wasn't a big hit, but it did very well.

http://www.slashfilm.com/jack-reacher-crosses-200-million-worldwide-paramount-working-on-sequel/

if Oblivion makes money then Van Helsing is happening with Tom Cruise IMO.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I think Van Helsing has potential which is why the Somnmers version in 2004 was such a disappointment.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Hey, you know what will never, ever happen?

Hollywood casting a Dutch actor as Van Helsing.

Rutger Hauer was in the terrible looking Dario Argento version that just came out.

 

[Lord]

The first Van Helsing has one of the worst CG in a mainstream movie after Mummy Returns. Notice the pattern here? ( Sommers)

Van Helsing's airing right now in tv and i don't see how the CGI's that bad, i actually liked the look of the film, VH was a good popcorn flick in my opinion, it had an interesting concept and idea but a script that needed a lot of adjustments.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Those are some pretty good questions and Fogelson handled them reasonably well. Here's to hoping they give their Universal Monsters a bit more lovin'.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

As a Universal Monsters fan, I do not approve of another Van Helsing-centered action movie.

 

[Eddie Dean]

I do, but not with Tom Cruise. Liam Neeson, baby!

 

[superhero]

Tom Cruise has some big shoes to fill. Some big, thickly accented, monster-hunting shoes.

Universal announced this week that the A-lister is attached to take the lead in a reboot of the previously Hugh Jackman-starring Van Helsing, which is one of several films on the studio's production slate. Thanks to his foray into Anne Rice territory, Cruise is no stranger to a big-screen bloodsucker, but going from vampire to vampire slayer? Now that's range.

This time around, to ensure that Cruise's incarnation fares better than Jackman's, the gothic reimagining is bringing in the big guns, enlisting the help of a couple of guys who know a thing or two about franchises
The reboot came about as a result of a two-year production deal Universal signed with writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, two names eminently familiar to movie geeks enthusiasts.

The writing team is not only the brain trust behind the forthcoming Star Trek 2, but also Transformers and Mission Impossible: III, where they previously teamed with Cruise. The dynamic duo was also recently brought in by Sony to give a once-over to the script for the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man.

In other words, they know what they're doing. Which is good news for their Van Helsing cohorts, Cruise included: While Jackman's stab at the slayer grossed more than $300 million worldwide, it wasn't exactly heralded as a creative masterpiece.

Show us what you can do, gentlemen

 

[StarLord]

''Dynamic Duo'' ...

Oh dear.

 

[Quasimod0]

I kinda liked the Hugh Hackman movie

 

[slumcat]

A step down from Hugh Jackman most definitely.

 

[Donut]

The monsters do not stand a chance with Tom Cruise & his running powers

 

[MrMaooz]

I thought he wasn't doing this anymore?

 

[Bim]

Meh, from Hugh to Tom? no offense, but that's a turn off for me

 

[Teelie]

I can't see Tom Cruise in it. He did wonderful in Interview With A Vampire but that isn't Van Helsing either and was 20 years ago.

Of course I'm still not sure I can see Ben Affleck as Batman either but that's actually going to happen and maybe he'll surprise me. If Affleck can be Batman, Cruise can be Helsing.

Something else I noticed in that article, "behind the forthcoming Star Trek 2." Just how old is this report?

I thought he wasn't doing this anymore?

That answers my above question.

 

[Airwings]

The monsters do not stand a chance with Tom Cruise & his running powers

He runs a lot these days, and he runs really, really fast. He should have started running earlier. Then he could have been Barry Allen some ten years ago.
Now we know why WB have waited so long with getting The Flash adapted to the big screen. t: t:

 

[Victarion]

I liked the old film just fine.

 

[Sawyer]

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=382849

 

[Senator Pleasury]

A step down from Hugh Jackman most definitely.

Is that even possible? I guess we'll find out.