Editorial Staff
Paul Feig, the rom-com staple whose next film “Last Christmas” opens in November, will direct a feature film uniting Universal’s stable of movie monsters.
Like Leigh Whannell’s “The Invisible Man”, Feig’s “Dark Army” – which will unite classic characters like Frankenstein, The Mummy, and The Wolfman with new characters – will be a stand-alone. Initially, Universal planned on uniting such characters in a shared universe titled ‘Dark Universe’.
“Instead of prescribing a mandated updating of these monster stories and making them all part of a larger scheme, the studio loosened these restrictions and open-sourced to filmmakers who were inspired to create their own unique stories,” Universal said
Feig briefly flirted with the horror genre via his 2016 reboot of “Ghostbusters” for Sony.
