Producer Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions were given the Universal monsters to apply his low-cost horror approach to, as opposed to the flashier, expensive, action-adventure take that Cruise's Mummy had gone with. By early 2019, it was clear that the old Dark Universe concept was dead. (Kurtzman had been the director on The Mummy and Morgan a producer.) And Bride of Frankenstein, which was in the works with Oscar-winning writer-director Bill Condon and rumored to have Angelina Jolie attached, was postponed. By November, the chief creative forces behind the concept, Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan, left the would-be series. Suddenly the studio was reported to be cooling on the whole idea of the Dark Universe. And would-be stars.īut then Cruise’s Mummy movie came out in June of 2017, and it bombed.

Javier Bardem would appear in Frankenstein, Tom Cruise was to star opposite Sofia Boutella’s Mummy, and, yes, Johnny Depp was to play the Invisible Man in his own film as well. This new shared universe was dubbed the Dark Universe, and high-profile names were attached to several projects. A few years back, Universal announced ambitious plans to reboot its classic monsters - the Mummy, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, and so on. But the trailer also has people wondering… whatever happened to the Johnny Depp Invisible Man movie? Good question! Basically, it got invisible. Blumhouse, of course, has had great success with a range of low and mid-budget genre films like Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Get Out, and so many others. Based on the trailer, the film looks like it has the potential to be another solid entry in the Blumhouse Productions line of creepy horror flicks.

Invisible man cast 2019