![]() As for what’s coming up on Universal’s horror slate, it remains to be seen which property Blumhouse will re-animate next. (Oliver Jackson-Cohen, from Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, now plays the title character.) It seems a fair bet that you won’t be seeing Russell Crowe or Javier Bardem in any of these movies moving forward either. Not surprisingly, Johnny Depp did not remain a part of The Invisible Man, which was reconfigured by Blum and writer-director Leigh Whannell, who also directed Blumhouse’s Insidious: Chapter 3 and Upgrade. “We are excited to take a more individualized approach for their return to the screen, shepherded by creators who have stories they are passionate to tell with them.” “Throughout cinematic history, Universal’s classic monsters have been reinvented through the prism of each new filmmaker who brought these characters to life,” said Peter Cramer, Universal’s president of production. (Just to get a sense of how quickly Blum’s team can work, The Invisible Man will be released on February 28, 2020, only seven months after it started filming.) As reported by Variety, studio execs decided to back off the shared universe idea and go for a more filmmaker-driven approach after The Mummy under-performed. Producer Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions were given the Universal monsters to apply his low-cost horror approach to, as opposed to the flashier, expensive, action-adventure take that Cruise's Mummy had gone with. By early 2019, it was clear that the old Dark Universe concept was dead. (Kurtzman had been the director on The Mummy and Morgan a producer.) And Bride of Frankenstein, which was in the works with Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon and rumored to have Angelina Jolie attached, was postponed. By November, the chief creative forces behind the concept, Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, left the would-be series. ![]() Suddenly the studio was reported to be cooling on the whole idea of the Dark Universe. And would-be stars.īut then Cruise’s Mummy movie came out in June of 2017, and it bombed. Javier Bardem would appear in Frankenstein, Tom Cruise was to star opposite Sofia Boutella’s Mummy, and, yes, Johnny Depp was to play the Invisible Man in his own film as well. This new shared universe was dubbed the Dark Universe, and high-profile names were attached to several projects. A few years back, Universal announced ambitious plans to reboot its classic monsters - the Mummy, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, and so on. ![]() But the trailer also has people wondering… whatever happened to the Johnny Depp Invisible Man movie? Good question! Basically, it got invisible. Blumhouse, of course, has had great success with a range of low and mid-budget genre films like Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Get Out, and so many others. Based on the trailer, the film looks like it has the potential to be another solid entry in the Blumhouse Productions line of creepy horror flicks.
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