It was recently announced by Universal Pictures that they would be adopting the trend of cinematic universes with their signature horror movie monster characters.

This would include Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc. However we have yet to hear much development news for the studio after this statement to THR months ago:

"So, we took a good, hard look at it, and we settled upon an idea, which is to take it out of the horror genre, put it more in the action-adventure genre and make it present day, bringing these incredibly rich and complex characters into present day and reimagine them and reintroduce them to a contemporary audience."

We have since heard word from one of the heads of the story group, Alex Kurtzman, who negates the previous statement in insisting that the movies will still have horror elements. According to Collider he said:

"I think there was some lost in translation quality to the way it was received, because I promise you there will be horror in these movies. It is our life goal to make a horror movie. The tricky part is actually how you combine horror with either adventure or suspense or action and be true to all the genres together. In some way, Mummy, dating all the way back to the Karloff movie, was the first to do that. It was the first to combine horror with - I wouldn't say action, but certainly a lot of suspense. So it's more about how you blend the different elements and stay true to each one, but there will definitely be horror in the monster movies...We will hopefully serve it up good and plenty."

There are currently no films slated by the studio for the upcoming "Monster-verse."