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NOT AS DARK AS IT WAS
Posted: 112318

The Dark Universe Lives But Extensively Re-Tooled

Universal Pictures had a plan for a series of Dark Universe films that would deal with a shared cinematic universe with its classic monsters but the failure of The Mummy has led to producers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan leaving the planned franchise. Their offices on the set are empty even though development continues on Bill Condon’s Bride of Frankenstein. The Tom Cruise-led The Mummy only made $80 million domestic and got horrible reviews. The international market saved the film which ended up making $409 million from a $125 million budget. Universal had plans for a Javier Bardem -led Frankenstein, Johnny Depp as The Invisible Man, Dwayne Johnson as The Wolfman, Angelina Jolie as The Bride of Frankenstein and new versions of Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dracula and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Each film would be linked by Russell Crowe’s Dr. Henry Jekyll and his Prodigium multi-national organization. So the Dark Universe was dead but Jason Blum’s Blumhouse studio has expressed interest in taking it over. That would mean smaller budgets but probably better films.

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