It’s been six years since we last saw Channing Tatum, Phil Lord and Chris Miller properly team up for both The LEGO Movie and 22 Jump Street and now the trio are reuniting for an untitled monster thriller at Universal Pictures, according to Deadline.
Though not stepping into the director’s chairs for this project, Lord and Miller and Aditya Sood will produce via their Lord Miller banner alongside Tatum, Carolin and Peter Kiernan via their Free Association production banner, while Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Jay Polidoro and Director of Development Lexi Barta, Lord Miller’s Will Allegra and Free Association’s Michael Parets will oversee the project for the studios.
The film, which is being penned by Wes Tooke (Midway) baed on an original idea and story treatment from Reid Carolin (Magic Mike), is described as “a modern day, tongue-in-cheek thriller inspired by Universal’s classic monster legacy” that will see Tatum in the lead role.
The untitled film marks the latest project in development from Universal Pictures tapping into their classic monster library following Leigh Whannell’s highly-acclaimed The Invisible Man and its in-development sequel, as well as the David Koepp-penned The Bride of Frankenstein, Paul Feig’s Dark Army, Dexter Fletcher’s Renfield, the Robbie Thompson-penned Frankenstein, the Elizabeth Banks-starring and directed Invisible Woman, musical project Monster Mash, Karyn Kusama’s Dracula, the Ryan Gosling-pitched/starring and Whannell-helmed Wolfman and Josh Cooley’s Little Monsters.