Javier Bardem in talks to join Universal's Monster Universe as 'Frankenstein'

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By Darian Scalamoni

            With the current state of the Hollywood movie industry, it’s always been about expansion and being bigger, an example of this in the last few years have been these “movie extended universes”. We have it with superhero films, Harry Potter films, but Universal is attempting to create a monster movie-verse and the casting has been filled with star power. Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp are just some of the names who have been cast in their modern remakes of the classic horror properties but today we have news from Variety reporting that Javier Bardem is being eyed to play Frankenstein as Dr. Victor Frankenstein’s resurrected monster, not the doctor himself.

            In seems that Bardem might also appear in another monster movie earlier on, possibly The Mummy which is about to wrap. As like in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, characters of the monster movie-verse are expected to appear in separate films other than their own. Other films within the expected movie-verse are The Mummy which we touched upon earlier which will star Tom Cruise as Tyler Colt, Sofia Boutella as the Mummy and Russel Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll. That film will be released on June 9^th, 2017.

            Along with that, elsewhere there is The Invisible Man which is set to star Johnny Depp in the title role and will be released on April 13^th, 2018. With all these exciting monster movies coming out, it’s hard to keep up so we’ll be sure to keep you in line with all news about Universal’s new spooky universe.