Now This Explains Why The Dark Universe Failed So Badly

In the late 2010s, Universal Studios attempted to launch an interconnected series of movies centered around the classic Universal Monsters, and recent comments from one of the series’ potential directors shed some light on why the aptly-titled “Dark Universe” failed so spectacularly. The Dark Universe was set to feature some of Hollywood’s biggest stars as Universal’s horror icons, including proposed castings like Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man, Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s Monster, Sofia Boutella as the Mummy, and Russell Crowe as Van Helsing. The cinematic universe never got off the ground as the first film, 2017’s The Mummy starring Boutella, Crowe, and Tom Cruise, was a box office disaster.