AncalagonTheBlack Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Dark Universe Announced at Universal with Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein and Invisible Man Quote Universal Pictures’ relaunch of its classic monster movie characters, starting with the Tom Cruise feature The Mummy on June 9, will be known as the Dark Universe franchise. In addition, the studio confirmed today what Deadline exclusively reported last month: Beauty and the Beast‘s Bill Condon is locked in to direct Bride of Frankenstein, which will be the next Dark Universe title following The Mummy, set for release on February 14, 2019 — a day that Uni already had reserved on the calendar for a monster title. David Koepp will write Bride. As such, Uni will not release a Dark Universe title as previously planned on April 13, 2018. The actress portraying the Bride will be announced soon. Uni also dropped a photo this morning with the stars of both imminent and future Dark Universe features gathered for the first time: From left are Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll, Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s monster, Tom Cruise as soldier of fortune Nick Morton, Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man and Sofia Boutella as the Mummy. It’s Jekyll’s mysterious multi-national org Prodigium that connects all titles in the Dark Universe. Its mission is to track, study and sometimes destroy evil monsters. Prodigium works outside all governments and protects the public from knowledge of the evil that exists in society. http://deadline.com/2017/05/tom-cruise-the-mummy-dark-universe-brand-universal-bride-of-frankenstein-bill-condon-1202099658/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manhole Eunuchsbane Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Nick Morton? Why not tie him in to one of the classic novels that these are based of off? Seems kind of stupid not to make him a literary character as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martini Sigil Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 59 minutes ago, Manhole Eunuchsbane said: Nick Morton? Why not tie him in to one of the classic novels that these are based of off? Seems kind of stupid not to make him a literary character as well. Just a guess... I'm thinking they agreed, then saw that Tom Cruise was cast, and opted for stupid. .... This movie universe looks like fun, but I'm not sure if I'd invest the time to go to see them in the theater... I'll probably wait for cable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 So... with The Mummy currently running at 23% on Rotten Tomatoes, was the whole rolling out of Bardem, Depp, etc a bit premature? Is this Dark Universe dead on arrival or will they ignore this Mummy like they're ignoring Dracula Untold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted June 9, 2017 Author Share Posted June 9, 2017 9 hours ago, Myrddin said: Is this Dark Universe dead on arrival or will they ignore this Mummy like they're ignoring Dracula Untold? I don't know if it's DoA or not but they announced two more movies in the DU a couple days back. Quote "We know we're going to do Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Invisible Man," explained Kurtzman, naming Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame as future projects in the line for the first time. But that's not all he gave away; he also teased additional spinoffs featuring unnamed supporting characters from those stories. "There are characters within those films that can grow and expand and maybe even spin off," said Kurtzman, adding, "I think that digging into deep mythologies about monsters around the world is fair game for us, as well and connecting the monsters that we know to some surprising monsters could also be really interesting." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 I would like to point out that Quasimodo is not a monster, he's just a lonely guy with a birth defect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manhole Eunuchsbane Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 10 hours ago, Myshkin said: I would like to point out that Quasimodo is not a monster, he's just a lonely guy with a birth defect. The Dickies concur... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cas Stark Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Has anyone seen the mummy? Is it as bad as the reviews? I would really like to see some of these old monster franchises succeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Me too, Cas... The RT critic score now shows 18%. The audience score went from 96% wanted to see it to now 50% like it. I'll still watch it on rental, but man... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beathag Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 The Mummy is wretched. Tom Cruise's (5'7") character is somehow the same height as Russell Crowe's (6') character, and that a major rub for me. If DU is a monsters to fight monsters universes, didn't they do that with Suicide Squad (my favorite Jared Leto playing the worst Joker since Jack Nicholson)? Unless you are a die-hard TC fan, do not waste your money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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