Dark Universe

Director Alex Kurtzman Reflects on ‘The Mummy’: “The Biggest Failure of My Life”

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Back in 2017, The Mummy was intended to kick off Universal’s “Dark Universe,” but when the film wasn’t as big of a hit as Universal had hoped, well, it wasn’t long before the entire “Dark Universe” was completely dismantled. Universal is on a much-improved path with their Universal Monsters at the moment, but the failure […]

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Javier Bardem Comments on the Collapse of Universal’s “Dark Universe” and His Desire to Play Frankenstein

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Remember the “Dark Universe“? It was only a handful of years back that Universal had decided to reboot their iconic monster properties with big budgets and big name actors including Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Javier Bardem, but those plans of course came crashing down with the box office underperformance of the new universe’s starter […]

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