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Is there a VAN HELSING 2 waiting in the wings'
Ahoy, squirts. Quint here with a report from a reader in Italy who has some information on a possible sequel to VAN HELSING. I don't know how well this "Ciak" magazine can be trusted, so count this as RUMOR for now. There's a screening of VAN HELSING in Austin on Tuesday that I'm pretty sure I'm invited to, so the Austin AICN crew should be seeing this in a couple of days. Will it be the big, stinking turd that the early reviews are saying it is? I hope not... But I will say this: Long live The Monster Squad!
Hello Harry,
For those who alrady hate "Van Helsing"...Make 'em read this!
this month Italian cine-magazine "Ciak" reported an interesting
dossier on the upcoming movie "Van Helsing", whose release date in
Italy is on May the 7th, like in the U.S.A.
Well, the magazine said that producers of the film are currently still
paying a rent for the studios in Prague, because if "Van Helsing" will
do well at the box office in the first week-end of release, the
production of a second movie will beging immediately (Jackman is under
contract for a sequel...). "Ciak" went on stating that the new
monsters that are going to perform in this new version are the
Fish-Man from "Creature of the Black Lagoon" and the Invisible Man:
the article says that Sommers had already "signed on" the Fish-Man for
a cameo appearance in the original draft of "Van Helsing"....
...Interesting...
Cheers!
Italian Daydreamer
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Is there some surprise in there existing rumors that major studio, especially Universal, has at least some plans of sequelizing and franchis-izing an action movie that they dropped six digits for? We already knew that Jackman was more or less signed for the sequel.
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May 03, 2004 4:52:02 AM CDT
Geez...the first movie hasn't even sucked yet for there to be a
by smarkjobber
But I suppose we are living in a world where "Underworld 2" is being made.
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May 03, 2004 5:13:44 AM CDT
Hmmm...well I guess you could have diarrhea after regular poop..
by bong
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May 03, 2004 5:32:34 AM CDT
TOMB RAIDER 2 anyone? Van Helsing is the SHOWGIRLS of Stephen So
by mentallymariah
Words cannot describe how bad this movie is!
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May 03, 2004 5:48:02 AM CDT
Ok VH stinks, thats been decided...what I want to know is: The M
by lezbo milk
what the hell did those three movies accomplish? A little off the subject but I was just thinking "what the fuck?".
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May 03, 2004 6:08:50 AM CDT
Hass, bragging about seeing Van Helsing a day earlier than every
by vikingkitty
In other words, it's not a great accomplishment.
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After all, Van Hellsing is nothing more than a bad ass version of Simon Belmont!
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Folks, we've got ourselves a new contributing editor.
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May 03, 2004 6:41:17 AM CDT
Is there anything more odious than the recent trend of announcin
by cash bailey
It's clearly some form of automatic damage control to try to protect a movie that clearly sucks major ass. The studios think that people will be convinced that this movie is SO FUCKING GOOD that they just can't contain their desire to do a sequel. Rest assured, nobody's falling for it.
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Idiot yank teens will pay to see Van Helsing and make it a financial success, thereby reenlighting the sequel. I hope everyone who buys a ticket for Van Helsing, anywhere (except of course for critics who must do this - poor guys), dies of Ebola.
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...immediately?! I'd rather see Hugh Jackman in X-Men 3.
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This movie is rumored to be a trilogy! And, just my personal taste, I would like to see Drackt and Velkan at odds over a girl. Especially if that girl was played by me. Hee hee.
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Set up a talkback for us lazy bastards who didn't get around to watching Matrix: Revolutions until last night. sk
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May 03, 2004 9:19:56 AM CDT
"If the film does well, there's going to be a sequel." -- What
by frankdrebin
I'm surprised we haven't seen a TITANIC 2, a THELMA & LOUISE 2, and a SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 2.
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This film will rule all. Too bad it won't ever happen.
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he is my fave of the universal monsters
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May 04, 2004 12:06:11 AM CDT
I saw this pile of shit last night and to find a worse movie wou
by regicidal_maniac
This thing makes LXG look like a masterpiece. Jackman and Roxburgh are good in it and Kate Beckinsale is dead sexy (and still sexy dead). The 'plot' contrivances were so pathetic I had to look hard to see if George Lucas' name was in the credts but alas no the man who brought us the fantastic Deep Rising, the pretty good The Mummy and the so-so The Mummy Returns brings us yet another in film in his 'downward spiral series'. Aren't film makers supposed to get better? The opening sequence, in black and white, evoke the right feeling and the acting in this scene has just the right touch of tounge in cheek homage but then comes the colour and the Parisian confrontation with Mister Hyde, bloody action and special effects not as good visually and stylistically as the opening but still fun. The when we get to the Vatican the whole movie falls apart and spends the remainder of its running time flapping about on the carpet gasping for breath and begging me to stomp on it to end its misery. David Wenham's friar is a very poor character and I like Wenham a great deal he was great playing his stock Westie in Gettin' Square and fantastic in The Boys and he's a top bloke as well but I feel really bad for him watching him as a second rate good-guy version of the terrible Kevin J O'Connor, especially in a film where O'Connor is already doing the honours as a second rate bad-guy version of himself as Igor. Oh and the CGI, peeeeyewwww! I know ten guys that could do a better job of the CGI characters and tranformations for a tenth of the budget (well except maybe for the Wolfman that was pretty cool, but it got old after a while) and I know a hundred guys that could do a far better job altogether with prosthetics and creative lighting and editing. Even then they'd still be lumbered with that godawful story. What was it? You can only kill Dracula if you happen to be a werewolf who can resist his charm and power, just as well Van Helsing gets bitten by a werewolf at the film's halfway point then aye? I hope they don't let Sommers anywhere near The Creature or stocking up on cans of whupass. Jeezuz it was such shit I'm only glad that I didn't have to pay for it. I gave it half a star for trying but then took that away when I got home because the I'd set the VCR to tape Alec Baldwin's episode of Las Vegas and I'd fucked up and missed the first fifteen or so minutes. No stars.
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May 04, 2004 12:13:19 AM CDT
Oh and one more thing, I like Alan Silvesrti but his sccore is T
by regicidal_maniac
Seriously, my friends and I were sitting there going Hmm this music sounds familiar, oh it's Johnny Williams' tender and epic music from Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Listen out for it. Then later it started to rip off Danny Elfman and Joe Lo Duca's score for Army Of Darkness then it was alternating from one to the other in the same scene. We couldn't stop laughing in an 'incredulous, pissed off how dare they think they can get away with this' way. Save your money and aviod.
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and why are my posts going in the reverse order? Fix this fucking talkback, or is it meant to represent the mess and insanity of VH's structure?
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May 04, 2004 12:21:02 AM CDT
and that should be "or (Il'' be) stocking up on cans of whupass"
by regicidal_maniac
in reference to Stephen Sommers getting anywhere near Gillman from The Creature.
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May 04, 2004 12:22:01 AM CDT
and that should be "or (I'll be) stocking up on cans of whupass"
by regicidal_maniac
in reference to Stephen Sommers getting anywhere near Gillman from The Creature.
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and why are my posts going in the reverse order? Fix this fucking talkback, or is it meant to represent the mess and insanity of VH's structure?
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May 04, 2004 12:22:25 AM CDT
Oh and one more thing, I like Alan Silvesrti but his sccore is T
by regicidal_maniac
Seriously, my friends and I were sitting there going Hmm this music sounds familiar, oh it's Johnny Williams' tender and epic music from Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Listen out for it. Then later it started to rip off Danny Elfman and Joe Lo Duca's score for Army Of Darkness then it was alternating from one to the other in the same scene. We couldn't stop laughing in an 'incredulous, pissed off how dare they think they can get away with this' way. Save your money and aviod.
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May 04, 2004 12:22:32 AM CDT
I saw this pile of shit last night and to find a worse movie wou
by regicidal_maniac
This thing makes LXG look like a masterpiece. Jackman and Roxburgh are good in it and Kate Beckinsale is dead sexy (and still sexy dead). The 'plot' contrivances were so pathetic I had to look hard to see if George Lucas' name was in the credts but alas no the man who brought us the fantastic Deep Rising, the pretty good The Mummy and the so-so The Mummy Returns brings us yet another in film in his 'downward spiral series'. Aren't film makers supposed to get better? The opening sequence, in black and white, evoke the right feeling and the acting in this scene has just the right touch of tounge in cheek homage but then comes the colour and the Parisian confrontation with Mister Hyde, bloody action and special effects not as good visually and stylistically as the opening but still fun. The when we get to the Vatican the whole movie falls apart and spends the remainder of its running time flapping about on the carpet gasping for breath and begging me to stomp on it to end its misery. David Wenham's friar is a very poor character and I like Wenham a great deal he was great playing his stock Westie in Gettin' Square and fantastic in The Boys and he's a top bloke as well but I feel really bad for him watching him as a second rate good-guy version of the terrible Kevin J O'Connor, especially in a film where O'Connor is already doing the honours as a second rate bad-guy version of himself as Igor. Oh and the CGI, peeeeyewwww! I know ten guys that could do a better job of the CGI characters and tranformations for a tenth of the budget (well except maybe for the Wolfman that was pretty cool, but it got old after a while) and I know a hundred guys that could do a far better job altogether with prosthetics and creative lighting and editing. Even then they'd still be lumbered with that godawful story. What was it? You can only kill Dracula if you happen to be a werewolf who can resist his charm and power, just as well Van Helsing gets bitten by a werewolf at the film's halfway point then aye? I hope they don't let Sommers anywhere near The Creature or stocking up on cans of whupass. Jeezuz it was such shit I'm only glad that I didn't have to pay for it. I gave it half a star for trying but then took that away when I got home because the I'd set the VCR to tape Alec Baldwin's episode of Las Vegas and I'd fucked up and missed the first fifteen or so minutes. No stars.
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who thinks up that shit?? is that the best they could do? I'm referring to the trailer, of course...
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Are you nuts? That's not even remotley a challange! It takes Hugh half a film to kill the wolfman, D does it in about three seconds! Plus he kinda has the powers of a vampire and a talking hand! Who can beat a talking hand???
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