Len Wiseman Reveals New Details For THE MUMMY Reboot "It's horror. It's epic. It's more of a modern day version of what would happen if we came across a mummy in our world today. It is pretty fascinating." It has promise... or could be the new DARK SHADOWS (I enjoyed that movie though)
Universal Hires Writer To Pen Competing Script For THE MUMMY Reboot "According to Vulture, Universal has decided to go an unusual route: Hire two different screenwriters to pen two separate scripts. Billy Ray (The Hunger Games) is writing said competing script, which is "also set in contemporary society". The studio believes that this increases the chances of having at least on script for The Mummy ready for production by either late summer or early fall. One Univeral insider says, "Studios don’t shoot movies anymore. They shoot release dates." And what would happen if neither draft works? "My suspicion is that one of them will be a 'structure-and-body' man, and one's going to be a 'character-and-dialogue' man — and that they'll then just gang-bang them together into one script, crediting both writers." This is not going to be good...
SDCC '13: Roberto Orci Updates On STAR TREK 3 And THE MUMMY Reboot "We just got a great script by Jon Spaihts, and we're hoping to be shooting that in the new year. Our idea is to try and differentiate it from what's come before because we love those movies and don't want to just remake them, so how do you update it? So I think the idea is, yeah, do it now [in the present day."
Well, that's lowered my interest considerably; setting them in contemporary society always brings out those guys who ask why we need the heroes when we have F-22's. This is why I enjoy period spy flicks more than newer ones: there has been no bigger silver bullet to genuine tension than the presence of the mobile phone in movies. Using the 1920's setting was one of the things that made the Stephen Sommer's movie pretty damn entertaining: two fisted tales of daring do with classy dames, men of adventure; and a sense of mystery about the world.
But there already IS a Mummy film with a contemporary setting. Let's face it, when The Mummy was released in 1932, it WAS set in contemporary society, and the tomb of Tutankhamun was still a relatively recent discovery (1922) and was in the public conscience.
How low has Hollywood gone to the point where they are making remake movies of Movies from the friggin 90s?
Three reasons why this is going to, guaranteed, colossally flop: 1. Current go-to hacks Orci & Kurtzman doing what they call "writing" 2. Wiseman directing it... who hasn't had a moderate success since Underworld 3. Like Wiseman's Total Recall remake, no one will want this one either
TOTAL RECALL Director Len Wiseman No Longer Involved With THE MUMMY Scheduling issues have led to Wiseman leaving the project - penned by Jon Spaihts - so the search for a new director is set to begin immediately. What a shame. He'll probably end his career as Mr Kate Beckinsale or something if he doesn't get anything soon.
I always get a kick when internet nobodies accuse writers they don´t like of being hacks. That why they are wasting time on internet board and you are getting paid a good amount of money to writ.... Oooops...
Yeah, and I always get a kick out of internet nobodies who blindly defend writers they do like just the way good little spoon-fed minions who only think what they're told to are supposed to do. Hilarious, isn't it? Anyway, this is good for Wiseman. It'll probably save or at least help extend what career he has left.
Bob Orci Talks THE MUMMY And VAN HELSING; Hints At Shared Universe “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 can 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.” Bob Orci Okay...
