It’s set in present day, takes inspiration from Mad Max: Fury Road, and is being written by Passengers‘ Jon Spaihts and Oscar-nominated Arrival scribe Eric Heisserer.
As for the plot, Heisserer has teased it will be a slightly more restrained adaption of Stephen Sommers’ version.
Alex Kurtzman’s Tom Cruise-fronted The Mummy will kick off the updates in June, followed by the Johnny Depp-starring Invisible Man and the yet-to-be-cast Wolfman, both slated for 2018.
Also on the docket is Van Helsing, which last hit big screens in 2004 with Hugh Jackman in the lead.