It seems like an eternity ago — but it’s only been three years — that Universal Studios’ proposed “Dark Universe” collapsed after its disastrous debut with The Mummy.
A proposed slate of interconnected films featuring Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s monster, Johnny Depp as The Invisible Man, Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll and even Angelina Jolie as the Bride of Frankenstein was quietly entombed in the studio’s development crypt after The Mummy unraveled like a…you get the idea.
Flash forward to 2020 and Universal took a tentative step back into the monster pool this past February with Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, a modern take on the venerable tale that kept some of its key narrative and thematic aspects while smartly updating it for a post-#MeToo world — and making the idea of an invisible man thoroughly creepy again.
The movie was produced under the auspices of Blumhouse Films,...
A proposed slate of interconnected films featuring Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s monster, Johnny Depp as The Invisible Man, Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll and even Angelina Jolie as the Bride of Frankenstein was quietly entombed in the studio’s development crypt after The Mummy unraveled like a…you get the idea.
Flash forward to 2020 and Universal took a tentative step back into the monster pool this past February with Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, a modern take on the venerable tale that kept some of its key narrative and thematic aspects while smartly updating it for a post-#MeToo world — and making the idea of an invisible man thoroughly creepy again.
The movie was produced under the auspices of Blumhouse Films,...
- 6/20/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
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