Universal will also skip the traditional Frankenstein story, at least for now. While The Mummy is a traditional action movie, Bride of Frankenstein will likely be more of a drama, which means the Dark Universe will vary genre depending on the monster. The movie will presumably star Bardem as the monster and a yet-uncast actor as the bride. 19, 2019 - just in time for a very spooky Valentine’s Day. Bride of Frankenstein, directed by Beauty and the Beast’s Bill Condon, hits theaters on Feb.
Working outside the aegis of any government, and with practices concealed by millennia of secrecy, Prodigium protects the public from knowledge of the evil that exists just beyond the thin membrane of civilized society… and will go to any length to contain it.” Bride of Frankenstein will be the second filmĪfter The Mummy, audiences will have to wait another year and a half for a second monster flick. Henry Jekyll, Prodigium’s mission is to track, study, and - when necessary - destroy evil embodied in the form of monsters in our world. “Dark Universe films are connected by a mysterious multinational organization known as Prodigium. Here’s Universal’s description of Prodigium: Jekyll’s has a complicated relationship with the eradication of monsters, considering his alter-ego. Jackson’s Fury ties together the Marvel movies as the head of SHIELD, the government organization that deals with superhuman threats.Ĭrowe appears in The Mummy to introduce the SHIELD-like organization Prodigium, which has been charged with tracking the world’s monsters. Jekyll as the Nick Fury of the Dark Universe. I’d love to see Charlize Theron in there, Angelina Jolie,” he told Fandom. “I’d love to bring Michael Fassbender in.
Kurtzman recently rattled off a number of other A-listers he would like to see in the films. No word yet on who might play the other characters. Javier Bardem has signed on to play Frankenstein’s monster and Johnny Depp the Invisible Man. Universal Pictures Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp are onboard It’s safe to assume that Cruise will make it out of this movie alive - if not unscathed - so he can wreak havoc in a sequel that unites him with the monsters from other films. When a bumbling Nick wakes her up in the present day, she decides that he would be the perfect new vessel for these deadly powers and pursues him across the world in hopes of stabbing him with a magic dagger that will turn him into a monster (and give him two pupils, apparently). She was interrupted mid-casting of an evil curse that would have imbued her mortal boyfriend with the powers of the god of death. The titular mummy (Sofia Boutella) was mummified and buried alive after trying to incite a coup when her pharaoh father gave her birthright to her baby brother 5,000 years ago.
In Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy, Tom Cruise plays a new character named Nick Morton. (Their faith may be misplaced: Wonder Woman, in its second weekend, is set to bury The Mummy at the box office.) But the movie flailed at the box office, so Universal is betting on Tom Cruise to launch the extended universe instead. Originally the 2014 film Dracula Untold starring Luke Evans was supposed to set up the franchise. Technically, the “Dark Universe” already exists. Some original Mummy fans are upset that Fraser was replaced as the franchise’s star, but he seems to be okay with it. The new movie takes place in present day, and the Mummy is female instead of male. (The late, great Roger Ebert wrote: “There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it.”) But it was a hit at the box office and spawned two sequels and a spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson, then billed as The Rock.įraser’s Rick O’Connell does not appear in the Tom Cruise film, nor do any other characters from the original movies. In 1999, Fraser and Rachel Weisz starred in a movie also called The Mummy about a group of 1920s explorers who accidentally unearth a very angry undead priest. This Mummy has nothing to do with Brendan Fraser’s Mummy The universe has been long in the works, though it’s still unclear whether The Invisible Man and Frankenstein’s Monster can battle Superman and Iron Man at the box office.
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