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Look, Dr. Jekyll Has the Creature’s Fin in a Jar!
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.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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