Dark Universe was one of the biggest movie failures of recent years. It was Universal's much-hyped series of interconnected monster movies that collapsed after the release of one film, the Tom Cruise-starring 2017 flop The Mummy. Now Eric Heisserer, one of the writers involved, has spoken about why it failed.
Speaking to The Playlist, Heisserer explained that there was very little agreement amongst the various writers that had been assembled to develop future Dark Universe films. "It was a very strange experience," he said. "There was certainly a big brain trust of writers around the table. You had a lot of voices and none of them could agree on much. Much like when I'd visit my relatives for Thanksgiving and everyone's arguing with each other.
"You had some people saying, 'Should our monsters all be villains in these movies or can they all be heroes?' And someone else would say, 'We can build the plane when we fly it.' And it's me and Jon Spaihts at the table going, 'That's a terrible analogy. We don't want to be on that plane. What are we doing here?'"
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