Alex Kurtzman says Tom Cruise starring Van Helsing is a complete reinvention
It was officially announced back in May, and now a few details have emerged about the forthcoming remake of Van Helsing.
Transformers franchise scribe Alex Kurtzman revealed to CraveOnline that the forthcoming Tom Cruise starring film from Universal Pictures will be a total reinvention after Hugh Jackman's 2004 Van Helsing outing.
Kurtzman is producing alongside Cruise and his regular collaborator Roberto Orci and said "Well, I don't want to give away too much, because we are actually at the very beginning of talking about what to do with it, but I do feel like the Van Helsing that Anthony Hopkins plays in [Bram Stoker's] Dracula is sort of the parody version of it, and the Van Helsing that Hugh Jackman played was obviously in a different place as well.
I think that these kinds of movies have evolved a lot since then. You know, The Dark Knight was a major, major corner-turning moment in the way that genre and superhero stories could be told.
Really grounded in reality. Really grounded in really cool things.
That's what I'd like to do without sacrificing the fantasy element."
Three time Oscar nominee Cruise has a lot on his plate at the moment what with Christopher McQuarrie's Jack Reacher (formerly One Shot) and Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion in post production and gearing up for Doug Liman's All You Need Is Kill as well as proposed sequels to Mission: Impossible and Top Gun on the horizon.
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