10 Movie Franchises That Were Robbed Of An Ending
1. The Dark Universe
Like King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, there are too many franchises that tried to jump on the bandwagon of the shared universe trend before laying any solid foundations.
Arguably no potential franchise rushed into things so quickly than The Dark Universe. This was to be the shared universe of Universal Monsters, kicking off with the Tom Cruise-led reboot of The Mummy in 2017.
Cruise was just one of the huge names attached to the new mega-franchise, with Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll, Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man, and Javier Bardem as Frankenstein's Monster. Universal were seemingly throwing everything at this new franchise, and would've needed nothing short of a complete and utter disaster to pull out after just one movie.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what The Mummy was.
With a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 15%, an audience score of 35%, and a mediocre box-office take, even the director labelled the movie as both brutal, and the worst failure of his life. It would seem that the studio agreed.
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