After one weekend of release, it’s safe to call Blumhouse’s “The Invisible Man” a bonafide critical and box office hit. The film, with its budget of only $7 million, has already earned $56 million worldwide through Wednesday (six full days of release) and is poised to have another good weekend. So, as Blumhouse is wont to do, the production company is already looking towards other Universal Monsters franchise that might be ripe for reinvention, including the coveted “Frankenstein.”
In an interview on the Evolution of Horror podcast (via /Film), the low-budget horror maestro, Jason Blum, talked about “Frankenstein” and how he has his eyes set on re-imagining the Universal Monsters film, as Blumhouse did for “The Invisible Man.”
“I’d love to do ‘Frankenstein,’” said Blum. “I’ve tasked our filmmakers with trying to figure out just straight ‘Frankenstein.’ Again, I don’t know if someone else is doing it, I don’t know anything about it, but I would love to try and I’m waiting for the great idea…the best ideas feel like, ‘My gosh, it’s so obvious, why didn’t that happen before?’ If we could come up with something as good for ‘Frankenstein,’ I’d love to try that.”
As has been previously reported, Universal is already looking to re-imagine “Bride of Frankenstein” with ‘Spider-Man’ producer Amy Pascal leading the charge. However, there isn’t really any word on a straight re-imagining of “Frankenstein.” In fact, with the success of “The Invisible Man,” Blumhouse could use the modern-day setting that worked so well there to relaunch “Frankenstein” as its own sort of spin-off, creating a Blumhouse Monster cinematic universe.
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Obviously, “The Invisible Man” wouldn’t work as well as it does without the great idea and execution by writer-director Leigh Whannell. So before we start thinking about the low budget Dark Universe, Blumhouse needs to make sure that any other re-imaginings does actually begin with the right idea.
Until then, you can check out “The Invisible Man” in theaters now.