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Even the Man in Charge of the Dark Universe is Unsure About Its Future
This year’s The Mummy wasn’t exactly a massive financial hit for Universal, nor was it very well received by general audiences, critics or, well, anyone else. Of course, the Tom Cruise-starring film was supposed to kick off the new Dark Universe… but it may have actually killed it dead in its tracks.
Universal has already announced that Bill Condon will be directing a new take on Bride of Frankenstein, set for release on Valentine’s Day 2019, and they’ve also teased that reboots of films such as Invisible Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Frankenstein are in the works. They’ve even let us know that Johnny Depp and Javier Bardem are involved in the Dark Universe.
But this was all before The Mummy under-performed at the box office and was trashed by critics. Now, the future of the shared universe isn’t looking so bright. And Alex Kurtzman himself, who directed The Mummy and is one of the key creative forces behind the Dark Universe, isn’t so sure where Universal will be going from here… if anywhere at all.
IGN just asked Kurtzman if he is still involved in the Dark Universe, and his response doesn’t seem to give much hope for the future of this particular universe.
“You know the truth is, I don’t know. I really don’t know,” Kurtzman told IGN. “I haven’t really decided, is the honest answer.”
Will Universal go back to the drawing board, continue as planned, or trash the Dark Universe altogether? We hope to soon find out for sure.
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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