The Little Monsters film will now become a part of Universal’s growing list of upcoming monster projects including Paul Feig’s Dark Army, Dexter Fletcher’s film about Dracula henchman Renfield, Elizabeth Banks’ Invisible Woman, Matt Stawki’s Monster Mash, James Wan’s untitled monster film, Karyn Kusama’s Dracula, the Ryan Gosling-led Wolfman film and David Keopp’s long-in-development The Bride of Frankenstein reboot.
The film will be a co-production between Universal and Mandeville Films with Todd Lieberman and David Hoberman set as producers.
Long-time Pixar animator Josh Cooley, who is known for directing the Oscar-winning animated film Toy Story 4, has officially signed on to write and helm the project.
Then The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, crashed and burned with a middling $409 million worldwide gross and subsequently derailed Universal’s Dark Universe.