Last month Universal Pictures officially announced its shared universe of monster movies, titled the Dark Universe, which will kick-off with this weekend’s Tom Cruise film, The Mummy. In addition, the studio has confirmed that Oscar winner Bill Condon will direct the next Dark Universe movie, Bride of Frankenstein, opening February 14, 2019.
Alex Kurtzman has shared that they will potentially be more characters that will be joining the Dark Universe.
“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. There are characters within those films that can grow and expand and maybe even spin off. 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. I’d love to bring Michael Fassbender in, I’d love to bring Jennifer Lawrence in, I’d love to see Charlize Theron in there, Angelina Jolie…”
It looks like Universal is all in on this Dark Universe and looking to bring back the popularity its original Universal Monster movies brought many decades ago.
