The new TRANSFORMERS film has the Autobots teaming up with King Arthur… who'll be played by the same guy who played him on ONCE UPON A TIME.
Compared to that, "let's get some name actors to remake classic monster movies" seems like pretty traditional Hollywood thinking.

I believe that's their thinking, too. Admittedly, they'll probably go with a bigger name (they seem to think that'll help sell the franchise, what with Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Russell Crowe already on board)… but I can understand them hedging their bets (or at the very least pushing back another Dracula solo…

that was from the "Gothic Horror" period of the show (basically, the first half of Tom Baker's run), which was full of great, fun riffs on classic horror icons.

I can haz ritualistic hoomin sacrifice?

One of the best things about the Karloff one is the way he expresses a pretty blatant contempt for British imperialism (he does it in MASK OF FU MANCHU, too).
God bless that old lefty; they cast him as The Yellow Peril, and he plays it as if he's the only civilized man in the room.

Which is, really, what a mummy movie should be about. (the occasional reanimated dessicated corpse is just for seasoning)

Surprisingly, they might NOT have; word is Uni might give Luke Evans another shot at the role in a cameo or something.(Unless they can score a big-name star, of course)

well, now we're going into a veritable black hole of semantics.
I guess that's the price we pay for keeping the AV Club Comment Section so highbrow.

More seriously: I can't take the pronouncement that "we'll be WAY scarier than those Bela Lugosi Mummy movies" too seriously, as Bela never made any.
But I CAN take it as evidence that Edgy Reboot Man probably hasn't actually watched the films he's allegedly remaking, which is JUST the sort of thing that instills…

Yeah, like Uni wants it's PG-13 action franchise to be some kind of "horror" movie or something.

Not if they can't find a director.
And the truth is, DC might be second-guessing a LOT of things these days.

With heavily recycled music scores, to boot.

And DC reprinted the complete run of Marvel's Doc Savage B+W magazine from the 1970s a couple of years ago.

Haven't read the new Shadow, but I adore the old Kaluta version; it was just moody as hell
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I come from the unique position of being a life-long comic book reader who's only lukewarm on the superhero genre (I like a good superhero comic, of course… but I'm not devoted to them).
In fact I was actually reading Marvel's monster comics at the time (although Marvel was doing this stuff better in their…

Well, Bogey was miscast, of course… but DOCTOR X had it's own problems (mostly that it didn't know whether it wanted to be a comedy or a horror film). RETURN at least took the attitude "well, of COURSE it's a gangster movie in disguise; EVERYTHING we make at Warners is a gangster movie in disguise!"

Well, it was an interesting period of transition, and there actually was a lot of stuff I love ( most of it was off to the sides, but that has as much to do with my personal tastes as the state of the business).

There are certain elements specific to this film (the furry vest, Inspector Krogh and his wooden arm, some of the stylized sets, Lugosi's broken-necked version of Ygor) that have become sort of a secret code used by people riffing on the Frankenstein films (whether it be a parody like YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN or a…

My favorite example of this is THE RETURN OF DOCTOR X, which is full of stuff that contradicts the movie, and suggests major reshoots.
also, it makes the movie look much more badass than it actually is: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Are you kidding? That sort of in-joke is what made 1970s comics bearable.