What happened with Dark Universe is so fascinating to me because we've never seen anything like it. This wasn't even the first attempt. Far from! Universal kept making monster reboots that were meant to start something. None of them ever did. Let's go over the history (thread)
VAN HELSING is an obvious place to start because it was a blockbuster monster mash of Universal Monster icons. In a "cinematic universe" world, it would now probably the movie that other movies build toward. Famously, it didn't do great.
Given the massive success of THE MUMMY from the same director, Universal had expected VAN HELSING to be a surefire hit. They planned a sequel bringing in more monsters, theme park attractions, and a TV series TRANSYLVANIA to launch in the fall after the movie's release.
Just had the brilliant idea to spend the evening reading through what remains of my childhood comic collection. Either through issues I’ve kept, re-bought or (most commonly) trades collecting the stuff I used to regularly collect back then. Let’s see how they hold up.
I’m gonna start with these two issues of the Dark Horse GODZILLA series. They only had the rights to the big guy so they had to make up all the monsters, which I kind of love. That image of Godzilla riddled with arrows and getting up is one of my top favorite comic covers.
Here we have Godzilla fighting, uh, Battle Toads that are also kind of Predators on the mean streets of Portland, Oregon.
Today's the day. The day to finally have a marathon I've been daring myself to do for a long time: The Mighty Marvel Marathon. Sure, lots of people marathon Marvel movies these days, but NOBODY marathons these ones. I'm going back to the before times, for the ones I had pre X-MEN
First movie up in the marathon: 1977's THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. In the years before we had a real, big theatrical SPIDER-MAN movie, I had this baby on VHS and absolutely wore it out.