De laatste keer dat Universal Van Helsing verfilmde was in 2004 met Hugh Jackman in de titelrol. Hoewel men hier weinig van heel liet gaat de studio het nu nog eens proberen. Tom Cruise is in beeld voor de hoofdrol en Alex Kurtzman en Roberto Orci, het schrijversduo achter Transformers en Star Trek, nemen de productie op zich.

Volgens Kurtzman kunnen we rekenen op een rauwe en realistische film. Hij zegt het volgende:

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.