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Look, Dr. Jekyll Has the Creature’s Fin in a Jar!

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In Universal Pictures’ The Mummy, in theaters June 9th, Russell Crowe plays Dr. Henry Jekyll, the owner of the Prodigium. As we’ve speculated in several posts, Crowe is the heart of the new Universal monsters universe as all of the film’s will revolve around his laboratory, with Tom Cruise being the Van Helsing-esque character that jumps from films to film battling all of the creatures. Several of The Mummy trailers and television spots have revealed this with a series of shots displaying the Prodigium, with one of the rooms holding years of research…jars filled with monster parts and other random historical artifacts. We’ve already noted that you can see a vampire’s skull (is it Dracula’s?), but now we’ve discovered a clear shot of the Creature’s fin from The Creature From the Black Lagoon! What other specimens are hiding in that massive room? Well, you can now tour the Prodigium on this VR website, which is hidden in the back of a real museum. Here’s a look at the fin (thanks to @TallyDude).

Speaking of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Uni has had their eyes on Scarlett Johansson for the remake since 2015.

A remake technically been on the slate since 1982, add the site, with original director Jack Arnold in talks to return. The project was ultimately scrapped, with John Carpenter, Gary Ross and Breck Eisner and Guillermo Del Toro each developing separate versions of the project over the next two decades.

The last we heard was that Dave Kajganich, who wrote the Daniel Craig-Nicole Kidman thriller The Invasion several years ago, was penning the screenplay. Bruce Eisner was once attached to direct the redo of the 1954 film that centered on a prehistoric water-breathing humanoid monster that lived in a remote Amazonian river and a group of scientists that want to study him.

I think the future of the monster universe hangs in the balance of how well The Mummy does on June 9th. A massive flop could kill this ambitious new take on the horror franchise before it even dives in.

The Mummy (2017) Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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