Star Evans, however, is still interested in reprising his role, were the opportunity to present itself. Given this lackluster performance, the film was completely ignored when Universal began detailing plans about their Dark Universe. Unfortunately, the film only brought in $56 million domestically and garnered only 22% positive reviews, according to review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
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While it wasn't an official entry in the Dark Universe, the Luke Evans-starring origin story of Dracula was meant to serve as a soft-launch of the franchise, with the studio hoping to test the waters and discover what fans' interest in a series of prequel/reboots of these characters would be. To celebrate and/or memorialize the Dark Universe, we look back on the current status of the series, what went wrong, and what Universal needs to do to right the ship.
What could have been a huge success for the horror genre has seemingly fizzled out, as the first film in the series, The Mummy, was a relative disappointment, but this year's The Invisible Man proved to be a major hit and has inspired talk of bringing the series back from the dead. That's right, it never even promoted The Mummy hitting theaters.
Both posts were shared on and, as of this writing, the account currently has just over 5,000 followers.
In the time since it was first announced, the shared universe's official Twitter account has shared only two tweets, one being featured above and the other being a photo of the cast attached to the universe. Three years ago, Universal Pictures announced its Dark Universe, a shared universe of reboots focusing on their iconic monsters.
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