{"id":32656,"date":"2015-11-12T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=32656"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T23:23:02","slug":"universal-horror-reboot-universe-van-helsing-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/universal-horror-reboot-universe-van-helsing-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal&#8217;s Cinematic Horror Universe Gains Writers for Van Helsing Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Expanded Universe, the reinvigorated <em>Star Wars<\/em> universe, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Universal+Monsters&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Universal<\/strong><\/a> is working on getting their horror reboot shared universe off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, it&#8217;s exactly what you think it is. Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, all your favorite classic monsters sharing one cinematic universe.<\/p>\n<p>This universe is set to kick off with a modern-day reboot of <em>The Mummy<\/em> next year. If it&#8217;s anywhere near as good as the 1999 <em>Mummy<\/em> with Brendan Fraser, we&#8217;re in for a treat because that movie is a gem and still holds up very well today.<\/p>\n<p>Now their second reboot in the universe, <em><strong>Van Helsing,<\/strong><\/em> set to come out in 2017, is getting movement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Variety<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/van-helsing-reboot-jon-spaihts-eric-heisserer-universal-1201638593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that <strong>Jon Spaihts<\/strong> and <strong>Eric Heisserer<\/strong> have signed on to co-write the script about the monster hunter.<\/p>\n<p>Spaihts is also writing <em>The Mummy<\/em> and Marvel&#8217;s <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> while Heisserer penned <em>The Thing<\/em> and <em>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> reboots in the past.<\/p>\n<p>No other details about the film are known. Van Helsing first appeared in Bram Stoker&#8217;s <em>Dracula<\/em> and then became a more versatile monster hunter when Hugh Jackman played him in the 2004 film.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited for this new cinematic universe? What other monsters do you hope they reboot? Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/van-helsing-reboot-jon-spaihts-eric-heisserer-universal-1201638593\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Expanded Universe, the reinvigorated Star Wars universe, and now Universal is working on getting their horror reboot shared universe off the ground. Yup, it&#8217;s exactly what you think it is. Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, all your favorite classic monsters sharing one cinematic universe. This universe is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[3145,112,3509,2141,702,1749],"yst_prominent_words":[15043,15196,7230,6413,27173,27171,12857,8998,9818,27169,7422,27170,8559,6869,27172,9458,27168,6039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64514,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions\/64514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32656"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}