Dark Universe

Dark Universe: Eric Heisserer knew Universal monster movies wouldn’t work

Posted 5 years ago

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer's credits include Arrival, Final Destination 5, Bird Box, and the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street – and if Universal's Dark Universe plans had worked out, he would also have been credited as a writer on...

Eric Heisserer wasn’t surprised by failure of the Dark Universe franchise

Posted 5 years ago

Once upon a time, Universal Pictures laid out an ambitious plan to assemble their classic Universal Monsters into a cinematic franchise that they dubbed the Dark Universe. The studio gathered up a bunch of stars to populate their new franchise,...

Dark Army: Paul Feig is determined to make Universal monster film

Posted 5 years ago

Almost a year and a half has passed since it was announced that Bridesmaids / Ghostbusters 2016 director Paul Feig was set to write, direct, and produce (alongside Laura Fischer) a Universal monster movie called Dark Army, which would "include characters...

Artwork shows Swamp Thing and Constantine from scrapped Justice League Dark

Posted 6 years ago

There have been a couple JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK animated movies, but attempts to make an live action adaptation of the DC Comics property, which follows a team of heroes with supernatural abilities, have proven more difficult. The project spent years...

Invisible Man’s Leigh Whannell to direct Ryan Gosling’s Wolfman remake!

Posted 6 years ago

After two false starts to recreate the Universal Monster universe (the first cinematic universe, starting in the 40's with FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN) with the failures of both DRACULA UNTOLD and the Tom Cruise-led THE MUMMY, Universal seemed to have finally hit...

David Koepp gives more info on his Bride of Frankenstein remake!

Posted 6 years ago

Writer/director David Koepp (STIR OF ECHOES, SECRET WINDOW) conducted an interview with the Boo Crew Podcast recently about his upcoming film YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT. During that discussion, his long-gestating BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN remake came up, and Koepp talked about...

Bride of Frankenstein remake may still be alive yet!

Posted 6 years ago

The Dark Universe was an utter, hilarious failure – a would-be cinematic universe that folded after just one movie (the Tom Cruise bomb THE MUMMY). Hell, even Sony's doomed AMAZING SPIDER-VERSE got two movies! Even worse, before it finally shuttered completely, it had...

Paul Feig has completed two drafts of his Universal monsters movie Dark Army

Posted 6 years ago

It was announced nine months ago that Universal had hired GHOSTBUSTERS 2016 director Paul Feig to write, direct, and produce (with Laura Fischer) a monster movie called DARK ARMY, which would "include characters from Universal's classic monster library and original...

Video: Two deleted scenes from Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man are online

Posted 6 years ago

Writer/director Leigh Whannell's THE INVISIBLE MAN is coming to 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 26th (you can pre-order a copy HERE) with a batch of special features that includes some deleted scenes – but if you want to...

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