Universal ’s plans for a shared universe of monster movies are all but dead after thecreative squad tapped to work up out the franchise left the project . The word was n’t on the button surprising when it first broke consideringthe reception to The Mummy , but it did beg the question : what might have happened if Guillermo del Toro , Universal ’s first pick to craft the Dark Universe , had said yes .
When Universal first approached del Toro about bring on a new generation of monster movies back in 2007 , the music director expressed interest in making picture that were separate , more Greco-Roman homages to the genre film of Old Hollywood . While there was development at one point in a del Toro - produced Frankenstein adaptation , talks around that projection fell through , and while Universal at one point offered the managing director the luck to oversee all of their ogre movies , he turned them down .
Speaking lately toThe New York Times , del Toro said that while he ’s more than accustomed to move around down huge opportunity and being completely fine with his option , he look back on walking away from Universal with regret . say del Toro :
The only time I regret I did n’t do something was in 2007 , when Universal in an improbably gentle and beautiful personal manner say do you want to take over the Monster Universe ? And they gave me the rein of several property , and I did n’t do it . That I repent . So this is a confessional here and now , I repent . That ’s the only thing .
It ’s insufferable to acknowledge what might have come from a rebooted Frankenstein or Creature From the Black Lagoon created with del Toro ’s vision . But to look at the way he ’s handled projects like Hellboy andThe Shape of Waterwith such love and fear , it brook to reason that he might have been able to bring the lusus naturae back from the dead .
[ NY TimesviaScreenRant ]
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