Universal Studios has hit yet another bump in the road on the way to creating their own shared universe franchise. The studio had planned on releasing one of the films in the series in March of 2018, unfortunately that is around the same time Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One" will be released. The currently untitled monster film will now be released in April of that same year. "Ready Player One" was originally scheduled to be released in December of 2017, but had to be rescheduled itself so as to avoid going up against Star Wars: Episode VIII.
While there are no details yet about what Universal's mystery project could be, some have speculated it may be either "The Bride of Frankenstein" or "The Wolfman". "The Bride of Frankenstein" will be produced by Brian Grazer(A Beautiful Mind) and written by David Koepp(Jurassic Park. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man).
Alex Kurtzman(Star Trek Into Darkness. Transformers Revenge of the Fallen) & Chris Morgan(Fast & Furious 6. Furious 7. 47 Ronin) have been placed in charge of developing Universal's new monster series. The studio is set to kick off the franchise on June 9, 2017 with the release of a new Mummy film, which stars Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella as the Mummy herself. The film will be written by Jon Spaihts( Doctor Strange. Prometheus) and directed by Alex Kurtzman himself.
The Invisible man will also be joining the series in his own film starring Johnny Depp as the title character.
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