Universal Pictures’ Dark Universe franchise crashed and burned after its first installment, 2017’s The Mummy, failed to impress critically and commercially, but the studio’s Universal Monsters property lives on through a variety of self-contained projects, including 2020’s critically acclaimed The Invisible Man. Among the upcoming titles on this slate is the Dracula-adjacent Renfield, and it’s been announced that X-Men franchise star Nicholas Hoult has been tapped to lead it.
