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Chan­ning Tatum reunites with Lord & Miller for a mon­ster movie send-up

23 Nov 2020

Words by Charles Bramesco

Four young men in casual clothing, one wearing glasses, engaged in conversation.
Four young men in casual clothing, one wearing glasses, engaged in conversation.
It’s alive! (‘It’ being a par­o­dy of Universal’s clas­sic hor­ror pic­tures, cour­tesy of the Jump Street directors.)

Uni­ver­sal failed in their first attempt to engi­neer a con­nect­ed cin­e­mat­ic uni­verse join­ing remade ver­sions of their clas­sic mon­ster-movie rogues’ gallery, but that hasn’t deterred the stu­dio. The smash­ing suc­cess of Leigh Whan­nells recent The Invis­i­ble Man has reignit­ed inter­est in this dor­mant IP, and trig­gered a wave of new deals for fresh takes on their most famed ghouls.

There’s a mys­tery project pro­duced by James Wan, a spin­off focused on Dracula’s lack­ey Ren­field from Rock­et­man direc­tor Dex­ter Fletch­er, an orig­i­nal con­cept called Dark Army from Paul Feig, and an Invis­i­ble Woman distaff com­pan­ion film from Eliz­a­beth Banks. To this list, we may now add the brain trust of Phil Lord and Christo­pher Miller, announced over the week­end to be work­ing on a film of their own.

The direc­tors of the 21 Jump Street series will play pro­duc­er to a new com­e­dy send­ing up the clas­sic Uni­ver­sal hor­ror canon, which will unite the pair with their for­mer star Chan­ning Tatum. Tatum will lead the film, described in a new item from The Hol­ly­wood Reporter as a tongue-in-cheek thriller” and not much else.

The specifics remain a mat­ter of mys­tery, in par­tic­u­lar whether Tatum will por­tray a goofi­er riff on one of the clas­sic mon­sters him­self or mere­ly encounter them. As any­one who has seen Jupiter Ascend­ing already knows, his canine side would make him an excel­lent fit for the Wolf Man.

While Lord and Miller will not per­son­al­ly direct, this still seems like a promis­ing prospect, with com­e­dy-hor­ror hav­ing proven a win­ning com­bi­na­tion in the past. Any­thing that con­jures the mem­o­ry of Abbott and Costel­lo Meet Franken­stein can only be good news.

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