That obviously didn’t happen as the critical failure and commercial disappointment of Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy forced Universal to rethink its plans.
We will see the first example of that with this weekend’s The Invisible Man.
Not that long ago, actor Johnny Depp was going to star in The Invisible Man, another entry in Universal’s would-be interconnected set of monster movies dubbed The Dark Universe.
But the studio didn’t write off these characters entirely and is instead now focusing on smaller, filmmaker driven approaches.