Tom Cruise in The Mummy (Picture: Universal)

On June 9 Tom Cruise’s new movie The Mummy will hit cinemas.

A remake of the 1930s monster movie starring Boris Karloff (don’t go in hoping for a remake of Brendan Fraser’s movie), The Mummy is the first film in the brand new Dark Universe, a cinematic universe which Universal aims to emulate the Marvel Cinematic Universe with remakes of the studio’s classic 1930s monster films including The Invisible Man and Bride Of Frankenstein.

And lucky for horror and monster fans alike, Alex Kurtzman, the director of Cruise’s new movie, has confirmed exclusively to Metro.co.uk that each new release should hit cinemas once a year.



‘Chris Morgan, who is my partner in the Universal Monsters, and I are working on all of them as producers, and the idea is that we’re going to do one a year, and that we’ve set a tone in this film but different directors will be able to come in on different films and bring their imprint, and unique vision to the idea of these monster movies,’ said Kurtzman.


Film director Alex Kurtzman, Sofia Boutella, Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis (Picture: WireImage)

Saying that, Universal have already confirmed that the next movie in the series will not be released on April 13 2018, with the Bride of Frankenstein instead moving to February 14, 2019.

How romantic.

He also discussed the ‘uniquely suited’ Bill Condon who will be the first of the ‘different directors’ to come on board and leave his vision on Bride Of Frankenstein.

‘The next movie is Bride Of Frankenstein and Bill Condon is directing it; he just did Beauty And The Beast but he also did one of my favourite movies, Gods And Monsters, which is about James Whale and the making of Frankenstein and the Bride,’ said Kurtzman.

‘He’s incredibly uniquely suited to this world and these films so I am very excited.’

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Kurztman was originally approached by Universal simply to help produce the new series, but soon came on board as director.

‘I’m a lifelong fan of the universal monsters, I love these monsters, and I think it’s such a special genre into itself’ he said.

‘I wanted to be able to honour the heritage and the history of the original Karloff film through the Summers movies, even the Hammer movies, and also bring something new to the table, bring it into the modern day by making the Mummy into a woman – and obviously Tom Cruise and Russel Crowe changes the game quite a bit.’

The stars of Dark Universe (Picture: Universal)

The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, The Creature from the Black Lagon, as well as monster hunter Van Helsing, have all been confirmed as upcoming films in the series.

Kurtzman also recently revealed that the series will also expand to include Universal monsters currently outside of the traditional line-up – including Dracula and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.

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