Dark Universe

But no, it was a wonderful interaction.

I urge you, if you're going to Dark Universe, to Darkmore.

If you see the Invisible Man is out, go over.

In fact, I'll tell you what, I'll send the photo along and we can throw it in the show

Is it going to be a post or next expansion? Which looks like the current next expansion is going to be – the next two to be fair is the rumors update here is the first one looks like to be Harry Potter and the broomstick coaster, and that's the current going rumor.

And the also current going rumor is Dark Universe with a Bride of Frankenstein coaster, which I'm very shocked they're going both coasters for their next updates.

Yeah, Creature from the Black Lagoon looked like a thing for so long.

Well, not only because I know – you bring up a good point.

does...

It reminds me a bit of when Universal wanted to do the Dark Universe of monsters.

They wanted to create their version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but with Universal monsters.

And they made the mistake of instead of they decided to start that with a reboot of the Mummy series.

welcome back to restart of darkness our deep dive into the dark universe today we'll be taking a look at the final film of this series for now maybe 2025's wolfman

On November 12, 2014, Deadline reported that writer Aaron Guzikowski would write the script for The Wolfman.

Universal confirmed the report later that day.

speak for yourself man yeah if i think

this needed the rock to rebalance the power of

the dark universe

yeah

that's what i'm thinking like even if you kept the rest of this awful awful script the exactly the same if dwayne johnson was playing the dad or like the main character uh that would be uh an improvement

This

is the fucking Dark Universe.

Exactly.

They did it in one movie.

Oh yeah, they are actually calling that in figures.

Actually, oh my.

This is the real Dark Universe that people should be lamenting that we didn't get.

Yeah.

And we were in this one area, and they had like a makeup show for like the universal monsters, but they really weren't taking advantage of that property.

But I know with this Dark Universe, they're leaning into that shit now, right? They did,

yes.

So that's a good point, yeah.

Dark Universe was a thing.

So Epic Universe has Super Nintendo, and then next to that is Dark Universe.

So after we were done with that, we went to Dark Universe, which is just all the famous monsters.

Okay.

It was a big blind spot because it's something I love talking about.

But the Universal's Dark Universe from 2017, the inaugural step into that was Tom Cruise's The Mummy.

I have spoken a lot about about how the Dark Universe had potential and how it failed and what they were trying to do with the MCU-ification of all of cinema.

And yet, I'd never actually watched The Mummy.

And so I feel like I've spoken too much about this thing that I did not do the primary source research of.

Mummy sucked and I have seen it.

And they dropped

the ball on this great potential of a dark universe and connecting them all in a way that Universal was connecting their movies back then.

I have misled you all.

Renfield was never supposed to be part of the Dark Universe.

I simply wanted to talk about a Nick Cage movie on this podcast.

I beg you all for your forgiveness.

Welcome back to Restart of Darkness, our series on the Dark Universe and its aftermath.

We're back again with Jerry to look at a project that didn't actually come out of the Dark Universe, but sort of came about because it died, Renfield.

So Renfield started as a pitch from writer Robert Kirkman, best known for writing and creating The Walking Dead and Invincible.

He created it too, right? I added that.