THR casually mentioned the rumor in a new feature on Universal’s Dark Universe, which kicks off this summer with The Mummy.
long-developing DC film) will feature long-rumored reboots like Bride of Frankenstein and The Wolfman, and rumor has it Universal is eyeing another one of their franchise super-stars to take the lead in the latter.
Coincidentally, one of Johnson’s early film roles was as the Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns, which led to a pretty terrible spinoff.
These plans are rather presumptuous: As THR notes, The Mummy is a “risky” introduction to a franchise Universal isn’t even certain that audiences want, and yet they’re moving pretty quickly to assemble what amounts to the monster movie version of the Avengers.