Al eerder konden we je bekend maken dat Tom Cruise het stokje van Hugh Jackman over zal nemen in de nieuwe reboot van Van Helsing. Universal wil hiermee de vampierenjager een heel nieuw leven inblazen na de eerdere flop. Cruise zal naast Alex Kurtzman en Roberto Orci de film ook gaan produceren.
Zelf vertelt producer Kurtzman hierover:
“Well, I don’t want to give away too much, because we are actually at the very beginning of talking about what to do with it. But I do feel like the Van Helsing that Anthony Hopkins plays in [Bram Stoker’s] Dracula is sort of the parody version of it, and the Van Helsing that Hugh Jackman played was obviously in a different place as well. I think that these kinds of movies have evolved a lot since then. You know, The Dark Knight was a major, major corner-turning moment in the way that genre and superhero stories could be told. Really grounded in reality. Really grounded in really cool things. That’s what I’d like to do without sacrificing the fantasy element. We aspired to do that as well on Trek, you know, keep it “real.” That’s such a different franchise than Batman, but that’s really what we wanted to do. And we’d love to do that with Van Helsing.”
Het is dus duidelijk dat de producers een meer realistische Van Helsing willen neerzetten. Kijk jij uit naar een nieuwe Van Helsing met Tom Cruise in de hoofdrol?