Universal Studios Announces The “Dark Universe”
Next month Universal will introduce their latest take on The Mummy. It involves an ancient female princess, Tom Cruise, an airplane and explosions. Universal wants you to know that it’s just the opening to a gigantic cinematic world that will span dozens of movies….the DARK UNIVERSE! It’s like the MCU, only with monsters instead of superheroes, get it? This kind of over-optimistic estimation of success is becoming a problem for Hollywood lately (see the previous newspost for yet another example of this). What makes Universal think they can make really old movie monsters THIS successful again? Well….technically, they founded the original shared movie universe, way before Disney or Marvel thought of it. Back in the early days of cinema, Universal practically owned the horror genre. Their takes on Dracula, Dr. Frankenstein, the Mummy and other classic monsters defined how we view them to this day. Usually when pressed to make a vampire impression the average person will impersonate Bela Lugosi, even if he or she has never seen the film