The Invisible Man is in production, filming in Australia.
Also, to clear it up: 1. The studio still refers to it as Dark Universe, it will probably stay like this and Dark Universe will be the name of a production company or just a division for all monster-related movies at Universal. 2. Blum ISN'T in charge, he's a co-producer only. Possibly, there's another project in pre-production (Frankenstein?) but I can't tell for sure. They will do these monster movies no matter what, it's all about keeping the rights to the image. Monsters are indeed public domain but Universal has copyrights to designs. For example, the famous Frankenstein's monster with big forehead and bolts is their imagination. 3. Peter Cramer (the head of production) said the movies wouldn't have budgetary constraints. Upcoming Dark Universe films can be different, not following the same blockbuster formula. While there will be low budget horrors, nothing stops Universal from making bigger and more spectacular ones too. The cast you could see in that famous picture can still come back, maybe there are extended contracts, who knows. Javier Bardem and Boutella are still interested. No news from Cruise or Depp.
What makes you think i give a fuck about gay ass monsters nigga?
David Cooper
These monster movies were huge milestones in the history of cinematography. The fact that they are still recognisable after nearly 100 years is impressive.
Robert Collins
Hitler was a big historical milestone and no one cares anymore whats your point?
Jackson Johnson
The original Invisible Man was great. I wouldn't watch one of these reboots if you paid me.
>no one cares anymore Lol. He's constantly brought up. Certain president is compared to him, every year there is at least one hololocaust movie.
Christopher Robinson
The original 1933 movie is great, no doubt. The new one is more of an update to the story, they do not want it to be the same, in fact they don't want to touch the original at all. New movie will be probably closer to the novel than to 1930s movie with Claude Rains.
Kayden Thomas
Cool I guess. I like the original one. I think there was some invisible man kind of movie few years ago but didn't watch it and i doubt it had anything to do with universal
Matthew Myers
Thanks for the info. I refuse to watch anything made after the early 90's though.
Cameron Foster
>New movie will be probably closer to the novel than to 1930s movie with Claude Rains. Will he be a sadistic psycho even before becoming invisible?
Samuel Peterson
Hollow Man? That was from 2000.
Josiah Morales
Are they still planning on the films being connected or not? Are they still building to crossovers?
Joseph Myers
Yes and no. The Invisible Man will be a standalone film but crossovers are not ruled out. It was never going to be something like Avengers, no idea why media came with something this ridiculous. The original idea was more of an anthology series, something like "Dr Jekyll's Prodigium archive" where he's looking at many cases of various monsters all around the world. I've a lot of stuff, I can post if if you are interested.
OP said that they will do it just to keep rights to images of these monsters.
Elijah Ramirez
Great. So we get trash like everything after Hellraiser 2 just so they keep control.
Cameron Butler
I'm interested in seeing how this turns out since they're supposed to be actual horror movies with different directors doing their own take on the monster, as opposed to the "Chinese MCU" Universal was gunning for before.
Jack Parker
Hellraiser was a different case. These monster movies are 80-90 years old. I don't know how long copyrights last but making one movie with each monster should extend them.
Carson Nelson
I somehow doubt they'll horror movies of any decent calibre.
Adam Thomas
If Amunet sliced baby's throat in PG rated adventure movie then Invisible Man must be a fucking maniac if they want R rated horror.
Wyatt Clark
They're in the public domain unless they want to use the specific Jack Pierce make up but I don't know how this can be achieved aside from the Frankenstein's Monster that is very distinct.
Luke Williams
>as opposed to the "Chinese MCU" Universal was gunning for before. It was never supposed to be like MCU, no monster assembly. The original idea was like Jekyll's archives. Each movie was supposed to tell a story of the monster Jekyll once met, that's all.
