She’s alive! Reports of the death of Universal’s ambitious Dark Universe appear to have been greatly exaggeratedIt is hard to imagine a more ignominious start to a film franchise than the one suffered by Universal’s Dark Universe with its appalling remake of The Mummy in 2017.
A cheesy, old-fashioned star-vehicle for Tom Cruise, and featuring one of the most preposterous screen performances of recent times by Russell Crowe as Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde, Alex Kurtzman’s risible effort tried and failed to interest us in an entire Marvel-style cinematic universe of monster movies being investigated by a Shield-style linking organisation known as Prodigium.
An expensive, clunky box-office bomb – it is reported to have lost the studio around $95m amid audience derision and critical ridicule – the film appeared to have sounded the death knell for Universal’s ambitious plans for a series of connected horror flicks.However, in
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