hesapooka — 9 years ago(October 24, 2016 03:43 PM)

https://www.reddit.com/r/UMCU/comments/593t56/writer_eric_heisserer_says_van_helsing_still_set/
Quietly, Universal is moving pieces around its massive movie board to create a Marvel-esque shared universe where iconic horror characters would interact in a series of films. The ex2000periment was supposed to kick start with Gary Shore's Dracula Untold, but that movie didn't catch on. So Universal started breaking out the big guns, which is why we now have Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp and Russell Crowe attached to movies built around The Mummy and The Invisible Man.
The character of Van Helsing would be very important to a developing Universal Horror Shared Universe, but so much of that process depends on The Mummy connecting with a larger audience than Dracula Untold did. For various reasons, we believe that it will. For starters, it's being headlined by Tom Cruise. It also co-stars Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll, and packs support from Sofia Boutella (as the mummy), Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson and Courtney B. Vance. Finally, Universal has slotted The Mummy into a prime summer weekend window, opening it in theaters on June 9, 2017.
If it takes off, it sounds like Eric Heisserer's Van Helsing could be another step in a larger Universal Horror Movies shared universe, and I, for one, am very excited by that prospect. Are you?