As we all know, The Mummy hits cinemas across the planet this week, officially kicking off the so-called Universal Monsters so-called ‘Dark Universe’. Well, that film’s director Alex Kurtzman has obviously been doing the official rounds of press interviews and has been commenting on his planned universe some more. Kurtzman let on about some further additions in the future when speaking with this website.
“We know we’re going to do Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Invisible Man,” he says.
This sounds like a huge deal for the studio and Kurtzman elaborated by saying that the characters could grow to span multiple movies, including bigger spin-offs.
“There are characters within those films that can grow and expand and maybe even spin off,” he added. “I think that digging into deep mythologies about monsters around the world is fair game for us, as well and connecting the monsters that we know to some surprising monsters could also be really interesting.”
The Mummy opens on Friday 9th June with Tom Cruise leading the cast. We’ll have a full review of that movie as soon as possible.
