Universal Pictures confirmed Monday that Johnny Depp will play The Invisible Man and Javier Bardem Frankenstein’s monster in what the studio is branding its “Dark Universe”.
Universal essentially created the monster movie genre in the 1930s when it released such classic films as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy, and creating legendary stars like Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the process.
And while there have been reports about the likes of Depp and Bardem circling Universal monster movie projects, nothing was officially confirmed by Universal until Monday.
The studio and our fellow creative collaborators have championed and challenged us as we’ve begun to spin the web of Dark Universe.