“We’ve learned many lessons throughout the creative process on Dark Universe so far, and we are viewing these titles as filmmaker-driven vehicles, each with their own distinct vision. We are not rushing to meet a release date and will move forward with these films when we feel they are the best versions of themselves.”
Blumhouse baas Jason Blum (Split, Get Out en The Purge) wordt genoemd als een mogelijkheid om leiding te geven aan het vervolg, met een lager budget benadering. Dit zou mooie uitbetalingen met zich meebrengen voor acteurs als Depp en Bardem die al een ‘pay-or-play-deals’ hebben getekend voor meer grootschalige, blockbuster-formaat films. Blum sprak in oktober al over zijn betrokkenheid:
“We’re not currently involved in Dark Universe, but it’s intriguing. I never heard that they were doing a low budget, so that’s news to me. Also I’m not really interested. The reason that it works is we have a great relationship with Universal, so I think if I wanted to do it they could be very open to it, but I would only do it low budget. So far, the only conversation around those movies is sort of bigger tent-pole versions of that, which doesn’t make sense for our company.”