What really is under Murdy's hat
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Halloween Horror Nights 2018 (USH) General Discussion
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People on the Orlando forums are now staying Trick ‘r Treat is scrapped, which I’m not sure to believe. It’d be very weird if WB pyelled ALL of their properties
No we lost the rights to Krampus 2 so now we’re stuck with Five Nights at Freddy’s vs Titans of Terror vs Insidious
Yeah, I issued a cease and desist for Krampus 2: Electric Boogaloo because Stranger Things is coming. Seriously though, what was the reason they lost IT and TrT?
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Nothing on our end (despite the fact that WB's Halloween thing is on our coast and not Orlando) + Murdy's tweet + the supposed Trick R' Treat scrapping coming suspiciously late after IT's "scrapping" despite the fact that real life WB would pull all its properties at once, while ALSO coming suspiciously soon after we sussed out that TRT and IT are both WB properties and thus scrapping one but not the other makes no sense given the current hypothesis of "WB wanna start their own club with blackjack and Snookies"...
Yeah. This seems like misdirection. Someone at USO is playing the "Leatherface" game, and they're probably laughing all while they're doing it.
That’s if we lost them. The most likely is because of Warner Bros’ haunt-event if they’re really getting serious about it, since they’ll want their biggest IP’s. Personally it screams misinformation since the whole situation seems really odd
If Warner Brothers pulled their rights this far in because they wanted to build up their event couldn't it become a rights issue and USH could sue? Somebody please educate me more on the matter.
It's very odd to see Warner Brothers suddenly turn it's back on Uni as a whole IF this is all true. Something is clearly not right here.
I read somewhere on the forums that the replacement is The Lost Boys. I do hope they know that Lost Boys IS owned by Warner Brothers. Either Warner Brothers is having an epiphany or it's like you said, someone is trying their best to damage control and mislead others.
Not a law student, but I don't know if it's that complicated of an issue. I'm assuming that with an event like this, there's probably going to be a contract someone at WB signed that let USH use their rights. Unless there's a clause in the contract saying that Warner can back out at any moment (I don't think that's standard, and if it is, that's dumb), WB has no legal ability to prevent Uni from using those properties.
I didn't even realize that. Assuming this is true, why in God's name would WB give up free publicity for a movie like IT (from an area of the country where they're not even competitors) to give the spotlight to a semi-popular movie from the 80's?
This smells like a setup. It's not like it's the first time someone at Uni has pulled a stunt like this.
A more likely thing would've been if the maze treatments that Murdy / Aiello made were not to the IP holders' liking and they were forced to make changes (see: Scream, Ash vs. Evil Dead); that would be a more likely cause for chaos. But some IPs straight up not coming because the rights holders felt like it? Unless something drastic happened (probably legal in nature), that just doesn't seem likely.
And besides, wasn't Orlando talking about Alien not too long ago? Now it's Lost Boys? What's it gonna be tomorrow, Insane Klown Posse from Outer Space?
Very true. Although, in the case of IT I wonder if Stephen King has a say in the rights to a theme park adaption/if he owns some of the film rights. If he does, then it’s understandable why IT can’t clme, but if not then it’s probably misinformation
It's possible, but I've made this point before: Knotts had Carrie, we had The Shining. Once the movie rights for a property is sold, it's sold. I'm not sure King really has a say here.
It's moments like this where I think IT should've been announced first.
I wouldn’t doubt it if IT or AHS was announced next, although if IT was the last announcement it would be an epic closure to speculation season.
If you want a glimpse of what an alternate timeline where IT was announced first would look like, simply go through the last few pages of the Orlando thread and replace the word "IT" with the words "Stranger Things."
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I honestly believe IT does have the capability of being next month; as long as Orlando's twitter seems to give similar hints of an upcoming announcement around the time Hollywood's.
And we would be talking about if the new ST lawsuit would cause another Conjuring incident since they’re really similar
Attaboy.
