But who knows? Maybe shifting gears to a female protagonist in 2019’s Bride of Frankenstein will do the trick. ![]() Sure, it’s hard to muster anything like desire for another Dark Universe flick after seeing this limp, thrill-free debut. But Wonder Woman isn’t all bad for the newly launched “enterprise,” dubbed Dark Universe, with which the studio hopes to exploit characters it introduced way back in the 1920-’50s: After all, it proves that such a series of interrelated movies (like DC’s “extended universe”) can still succeed after the well has been poisoned by outings so terrible any executive with taste would have pulled the plug. ![]() Some have noted that Universal must hate to be opening Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy in the second week of Wonder Woman‘s run, with that hit sure to suck millions out of its box-office haul.
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