Hey Thrill Seekers,
A few years ago now we reported that Universal and Legendary Pictures had entered into a five-year production and co-financing partnership, starting in 2014, in which Universal would market and distribute Legendary’s movies worldwide, and Universal would be able to tap into some of Legendary’s IP’s.
Today I thought I’d take a very quick look at upcoming films promoted on Legendary’s website and see if any of them could be incorporated into Universal’s Theme Parks… In hindsight in may have been an easier post to write if I’d taken a look at films coming out in the summer of 2015 but hey, I only thought to look today, so what can you do.
Here’s what I came up with.
Krampus
It wont happen this year but could Halloween Horror Nights 26 use the IP of this Christmas horror film? Based on the German folk story of Krampus a kind of Anti-Santa Legendary Films bills it like this;
When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max (Emjay Anthony) is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.
All hell breaks loose as beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own, laying siege to the fractured family’s home and forcing them to fight for each other if they hope to survive
Warcraft
Based on the hugely popular video games and novels. Legendary and Universal Pictures are looking to bring this medieval fantasy World to life. Universal have obviously had previous success with fantasy style lands at their parks with The Wizarding World of Harry Potter the obvious example of this.
Here’s what Legendary say about this upcoming film (2016);
Legendary’s WARCRAFT is a 3D epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based upon Blizzard Entertainment’s globally-renowned universe. Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) and written by Charles Leavitt and Duncan Jones, the film is a Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment production. The producers are Charles Roven, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Alex Gartner and Stuart Fenegan. Jillian Share, Brent O’Connor, Michael Morhaime and Paul Sams serve as executive producers. Rob Pardo, Chris Metzen, Nick Carpenter and Rebecca Steel Roven co-produce
Crimson Peak
Another for Halloween Horror Nights 26, Crimson Peak is a supernatural horror romance set in the 19th century and starring Tom Hiddleston (Loki).
This is how Director Guillermo del Toro describes it;
But basically what it is is a really, really, almost classical gothic romance ghost story, but then it has two or three scenes that are really, really disturbing in a very, very modern way. Very, very disturbing, it’s a proper R rating. And it’s adult.
Legendary also have some comics with IP that although is not widely popular now could perhaps be in the future. One of their offerings was penned by comic legend Grant Morrison (Batman, X-Men, Spider-Man) and is called Annihilator and tells the story of a screenwriter whose creation comes to life. Morrison has been nominated for an Eisner award for this series. Although the story doesn’t immediately lend itself to theme parks stranger thing have happened…
Out of the 4 IP’s I’ve mentioned above and assuming they all do well at the box office I could definitely see Krampus making it into HHN26 and based purely on popularity Warcraft could have a chance.
What do you think?
Smiles included…
Jamie
