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Podcast: The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network
Episode: The Van Helsing That Never Was: Inside Universal’s Abandoned Dark Universe
Description: Jim Hill and Eric Hersey trace the ambitious — and ultimately ill-fated — vision for Universal’s Dark Universe, from the scrapped sequel to The Mummy to Tom Cruise’s push to reinvent himself as the studio’s modern Van Helsing.
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