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Dark Universe Doom

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25 January 2018

By Alex Khalil

Universal’s ‘revival’ of the so-called Dark Universe may be at a bitter end after a writer quits the next movie in the line-up, Invisible Man.

The franchise was supposed to stretch across multiple movies from classic horror and monster movies like The Mummy and Frankenstein. But, due to the flop that was The Mummy in 2017, those loft visions have fallen short right out of the gate. Since then The Bride of Frankenstein has been indefinitely delayed, after producers Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan left.

Now, writer Ed Solomon, who was signed up to the Johnny Depp Invisible Man movie, left too. He has parted ways with Universal due to creative differences.

This movie was so bad it’s not even funny. I mean it’s a little bit funny.

“At the end of the day, I think Universal and I had a different idea of what the movie was gonna be. We began thinking that our notions would meld, and I should’ve listened more closely to what they really were wanting.”

Universal is now ‘reconfiguring’ how the movies will work. If they were clever, they’d put the series on ice, then try again in a few years.

The need to have everything be a self-contained universe could be what’s killing audience interest in some of these movies. Not only does the movie have to be good, but it then must do well financially to justify multiple follow-ups.

Not exactly an easy thing to pull off.

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