According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director/producer of The Mummy, Alex Kurtzman, has listed the upcoming Dark Universe movies and there are a couple of surprise additions to the originally-announced slate.
Now, talking with Fandom, Kurtzman has shared more characters that will be joining the Dark Universe.
"We know we're going to do Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Invisible Man", explained Kurtzman. It will be followed up by the Bill Condon-directed Bride of Frankenstein, starring Javier Bardem; Creature of the Black Lagoon from screenwriters Jeff Pinkner and Will Beall; The Invisible Man, starring Johnny Depp; and Van Helsing, from Prometheus scribe Jon Spaihts, Arrival writer Eric Heisserer, and Dan Mazeau.
Namely, by announcing a quadrillion different films in the franchise before the first one has even hit cinemas, which appears to be the gargantuan gamble Universal is now taking with its proposed Dark Universe.
Universal is kicking off their Dark Universe with The Mummy, featuring Sofia Boutella as the character which also introduces Tom Cruise's Nick Morton, who will go on to be featured in the Dark Universe movies, and Russell Crowe's Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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That being said, we'll have to wait and see how The Mummy performs over the weekend to see if audiences are really interested in this new world of gods and monsters. Meanwhile, former "Dracula" movies were loosely based on Bram Stoker's novel of the same name. The studio had tried to launch the Universal Monsters shared universe when they released Dracula Untold in 2014.
Universal Monster Universe will have "The Mummy" as its first installment.
"The Mummy" also stars Sofia Boutella, Russell Crowe, and Annabelle Wallis, and is set for release in the United Kingdom and U.S. on Friday (09.06.17).
The Mummy hits United Kingdom cinemas 9 June.
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