New Universal Monster Movie Being Developed By James Wan
The Universal monster mash continues! AfterThe Invisible Manbroke the box office and garnered great reviews, Universal is amping up to make more and more monster flicks, and here comes another one.James Wanis teaming with the studio to develop a new movie that sounds at leastpartiallyinspired byFrankenstein, while not being a direct adaptation. Wan will produce whileSupernaturalwriterRobbie Thompsonis penning the script.
THRhas the scoop on the James Wan Universal Monster movie. The film is currently untitled, but here’s the synopsis:
The “someone builds a monster and the monster gets loose” plotline is clearly inspired byFrankenstein.Whether or not this film is going to bill itself as aFrankensteinmovie or not remains to be seen, but there were rumblings months ago that Wan was potentially involved with a newFrankensteinmovie. We were told that that info was inaccurate at the time – but now we have this news.
Wan will produce with his Robot Monster banner, but he won’t be directing the pic, which is always a bit of a downer for me – I want him to direct more horror again! The filmmaker is returning to horror soon with his upcoming directorial effortMalignant, and I was hoping that was a sign he was going to get back into the horror movie directing game for a longer period of time. Alas, it doesn’t seem likely, but his involvement in this project is still promising.
Universal is clearly gunning for more and more monster-related content in the wake ofThe Invisible Man. They already have titles lined-up: theDraculaspin-offRenfield, Elizabeth Banks’sThe Invisible Man(whichisn’tconnected toThe Invisible Man, despite its title), Paul Feig’sDark Army, which is said to feature classic Universal monsters, andThe Monster Mash, which we don’t really know a whole lot about. It was recently reported that Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, who worked together with Universal onInvisible Man, was interested indeveloping their ownFrankenstein. Will that still happen now that Wan’s project hasFrankensteinovertones? We shall see. For now, as a fan of the Universal monsters, I’m just happy to see Universal taking new approaches in the wake of their failed Dark Universe.
