Paul Feig is a director who likes to jump between genres, and he's got a horror-adjacent monster movie called Dark Army bubbling away in development. Talking with Collider recently, he offered an update as to where he is with the film, its inspiration and whether he thinks it'll see screens.
The writer/director is clearly enthused by this new project. "I’ve done two drafts and I love it, it’s one of my favorites scripts I’ve ever written," he says, before cautioning, "Universal, they’re not quite sure what they’re doing right now. Because Invisible Man did really well on a very micro budget, and my movie’s a little more expensive than that. So I’m hoping to God we get to make it, because I just absolutely love it. I’m so thrilled with it."
Nevertheless, he's pushing ahead with the process, and is drawing from some of his favourite Universal films from the past. "Tonally I’m being very true to the traditional monster movie genre. Not horror movie, monster movie. I love those movies of the 30s, the James Whale movies, and Bride Of Frankenstein I still think is one of the greatest films of all time. So I want that tone because those movies were very fun. They treated them seriously, but you also know they were also having a lot of fun with them, so there are a lot of extreme characters in them and funny side characters. That’s what I want, I never wanted to make a horror movie. I want to make a true monster movie." For more from Feig, head to Collider's site.