Success for Gareth Edwards’s offbeat spinoff of the space opera would prove there’s more than one Marvel-style model for building Hollywood mega-sagasIs the cinematic universe concept really that original? Alex Kurtzman,director of the forthcoming Tom Cruise-led remake of The Mummy, pointed out recently that Universal Pictures were making mashup monster movies more than half a century ago. Roy William Neill’s film Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, or featuring Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein’s Monster and Lon Chaney Jr reprising his role as the cursed lycanthrope,kicked off the concept in 1943. Further ensemble efforts House of Frankenstein (1944) and House of Dracula (1945) even added the vampire count to the mix. Related: Six key questions Rogue One: A Star Wars fable must answer Related: Five things we learned from the first trailer for The Mummy Related: The Force is with Rogue One: first-night reaction from fans and celebrities Continue reading...
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