“We don’t have any capes [in our film library]. But what we do have is an incredible legacy and history with the monster characters. We’ve tried over the years to make monster movies — unsuccessfully, actually. So, we took a good, hard look at it, and we settled upon an idea, which is to take it out of the horror genre, put it more in the action-adventure genre and make it present day, bringing these incredibly rich and complex characters into present day and reimagine them and reintroduce them to a contemporary audience.”
Calling it now:
* Dracula will be a wealthy industrialist CEO;
* Frankenstein will be a genetic engineer and the Monster will be the scarred, leather-clad stalker hunting him down;
* The Invisible Man will be a military biologist gone rogue;
* The Mummy will have been masterminding political unrest and upheaval in Egypt in order to gain power;
* The Wolf Man will be a military man returned home from some conflict;
* The Creature from the Black Lagoon is from a species that evolved from an alien microbe carried to Earth ages ago.
Dracula will be the head of the European advanced medical sciences firm which Henry Frankenstein worked for before making off with critical research that suggests he may have found a key to immortality that doesn't require the physical vulnerability of possibly being staked through the heart while you sleep; the U.S. government learns of this and assigns a special biological sciences unit to develop a means of infiltrating Dracula's company and unlocking everything he has pertaining to Frankenstein's work...a unit headed by one Dr. Griffin.
Meanwhile, Lt. Lawrence Talbot becomes a hero after taking part in a Special Ops mission to rescue a relief worker in Dracula's employ, Helen Grosvenor - who's believed by fanatics secretly working for mover-shaker Ardath Bey to be the reincarnation of Ankh-es-en-Amon - but Talbot is cursed for his involvement when, upon his homecoming, he's attacked by a large dog, and his investigation into his developing lycanthropic predicament seems to suggest that Dracula and Bey were in cahoots on some scheme.
While that's going on, reports that Frankenstein's Monster has escaped to the jungles along the Amazon River - due to a series of gruesome killings along the waters that could only be the work of an intelligent creature with superhuman strength and an apparent resistance to conventional weapons - draw the attention of not only corporate spies in Dracula's service but the aforementioned American biological team, now led by Dr. David Reed, and one of the spies infiltrates Reed's expedition down the Amazon to a fabled region called the Black Lagoon.
If that isn't what happens exactly, it'll at least be that bad. If it gets THAT far.
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