Van Helsing to get the 'Dark Knight' treatment

It seems that the attempt to revive 'Van Helsing' is also a scramble to get as much distance between the new version and the tacky 2004 monster mash as possible.

According to The Playlist Alex Kurzman, who is co-penning the script with 'Transformers' and 'Star Trek' collaborator Roberto Orci, spoke in a recent interview about how he wants to follow in the footsteps of Christopher Nolan in reinventing his own character.

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"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.”

As much as we love Nolan's Batman universe, we can't help but wonder whether it's draining the joy out of some franchises. Nonetheless, another ‘Van Helsing’ story sounds fun.