Oh, Dark Universe, we barely knew you. Anyone who’s followed my work for a while knows I’m kind of a softie optimistic when it comes to movies. I’m generally not bothered by studio cash grabs and try to let a work speak for itself. I’ve also never been incredibly bothered by the idea of studios all creating their own shared universes. So long as the movies were good, what did it matter that it was made for cynical purposes?

That being said, even I had to admit that The Mummy was a pretty god-awful piece of filmmaking. On virtually every level, it failed as a story, and in spite of my interest in an overarching universe with these well-known monsters, I didn’t necessarily like the tone and style they were going for here. A couple years have passed since then, and the Dark Universe has been buried, with a new The Invisible Man movie on the way from Upgrade helmer Leigh Whannel.

Collider had a chance to speak with the movie’s producer Jason Blum, who gave some insight on how this project came about, and how his philosophy is different from the regime that came before:

“I don’t believe in saying ‘We’re going to do movies about this’ and then trying to find a movie about it. So, I didn’t believe in going and saying ‘I want to do all these movies’’ and then try to find directors to do them. We have a director we’ve also done six or seven movies with, pitched us this spectacular idea about Invisible Man. We told him to write it, he wrote it, then we took it to the studio and said ‘We’d love to do this and this is what we would do with it,’ and they said yes.”

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And if you’re worried the studio will try and once again turn this into a big-budget affair, it looks like that is the farthest thing from their mind:

“It was like the Blumhouse version of The Invisible Man, it’s a lower-budget movie. It’s not dependent on special effects, CGI, stunts. It’s super character-driven, it’s really compelling, it’s thrilling, it’s edgy, it feels new. Those were all things that felt like they fit with what our company does. And it happened to be an Invisible Man story, so it checked both boxes. And we responded to it because I think Leigh is just an A+ director.”

I think they really have the right idea. It’s an old-school mentality, but there’s nothing wrong with doing a one-off story and seeing how it does before jumping into a sequel. It allows studios to throw everything they can into one film rather than teasing cool stuff to come, which I’m sure bothers more cynical viewers.

But what do you think of Blum’s comments? Are you excited for a new The Invisible Man film? Let us know your thoughts down below!

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SOURCE: Collider