5 Thoughts I Had While Watching ‘The Invisible Man’
What you see is not what you get
Remember a few years ago when movie studio Universal wanted to create an entire Marvel-like cinematic universe starring their beloved collection of classic monster movie characters?
I remember reading that news at the time and thinking “So, Dracula is like Captain America?” I also knew this was a bad idea but the success of movies like The Avengers, where multiple intellectual properties fight each other was too lucrative a prize to ignore. Who can blame Universal executives for dreaming big?
So first up was 2017’s The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise as some Army Dude who learns there’s a secret monster-hunting organization run by Dr. Jekyll, played by Russel Crowe who, too his credit, looks like he’s having fun. Together they fought the Mummy, who is sexy! (I have to mention that Brendan Fraiser’s 1999 action-adventure The Mummy is a fun movie that is easy on the brain and worth re-watching semi-annually.)
Tom Cruise’s The Mummy was supposed to be the first in a series of movies featuring monsters like The Creature From The Black Lagoon and The Bride Of Frankenstein. And Cruise and Crowe weren’t the only superstars attached: Javier Bardem was supposed to play Frankenstein’s monster. Angelina Jolie? The aforementioned Bride. And…
