Dear Universal Studios, Your Monster Movies Should Be Continued, Not Rebooted

The pioneering studio has yet to popularly, or effectively, remix their most enduring genre properties.

Karloff, the Chaneys and Lugosi are no longer alive.

The Kings are dead. Long live the new …

No. We’re not there yet.

So I have a suggestion: Let’s write amazing scripts, attain licensing rights from the families and deepfake their images onto new actors.

Shooting in black and white, of course. It worked for “Young Frankenstein” in 1974.

Alas, none of this will happen, but the point is we now have the technological capability to mimic the look and feel of those old classic films, while continuing the cannon of one of the most enduring cinematic series ever for new generations.

If the stories are somehow passe for modern times, why the continued effort to reinvent them?

And why does Universal keep screwing them up?