Fans hoping to see the classic Universal Monsters return to their horror roots in the studio's shared-universe reboot had better brace themselves. During The Hollywood Reporter's roundtable talk with six studio heads, Universal Chairman Donna Langley revealed the new Avengers-style franchise starring Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's monster and the rest will have a decidedly action-adventure tone.

"We don't have any capes [in our film library]," she said, "but what we do have is an incredible legacy and history with the monster characters. We've tried over the years to make monster movies -- unsuccessfully, actually. And we had an epiphany, which is that the horror genre has a ceiling -- it's not global. There's a reason why monster characters are enduring, generation upon generation. So we took a good, hard look at it and we settled upon an idea, which is to take it out of the horror genre, put it more in the action-adventure genre and make it present day, bringing these incredibly rich and complex characters into present day and reimagine them and reintroduce them to a contemporary audience."

While it as yet to be revealed how the recent Dracula Untold fits into this new universe, that film did rely more on action than horror and included a stinger at the end that moved the titular character to a modern setting. Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan are overseeing this new project. The Mummy is expected in theaters in April 2016, with another film to follow in April 2017.

If you have an hour to kill, you can get inside the minds of the people behind Fox, Paramount, Disney, Universal, IFC and Warner Bros. in the video below.