{"id":110045,"date":"2019-09-13T13:01:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=110045"},"modified":"2019-09-13T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:01:53","slug":"paul-feig-is-working-on-a-universal-monster-movie-called-dark-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/paul-feig-is-working-on-a-universal-monster-movie-called-dark-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Feig is working on a Universal monster movie called Dark Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Feig is set to team up with Universal to write and direct a brand new monster movie titled\u00a0<em><strong>Dark Army<\/strong><\/em>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2019\/09\/paul-feig-monster-movie-dark-army-universal-pictures-classic-monster-universe-1202732738\/\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film is reportedly based on an original idea by Feig, but it is not yet known how, or even if, it will tie into Universal&#8217;s ongoing Monster universe. What we do know, though, is that\u00a0<em><strong>Dark Army\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>will feature characters from the studio&#8217;s classic monster library as well as original characters created by Feig.<\/p>\n<p>Feig is best known for directing big screen comedies like\u00a0<em><strong>Bridesmaids<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>The Heat<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Spy<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>A Simple Favour<\/strong><\/em>. The filmmaker&#8217;s next film is\u00a0<em><strong>Last Christmas<\/strong><\/em>, which will hit cinemas this winter and feature Emilia Clarke, Emma Thompson, Henry Golding and a range of George Michael songs.<\/p>\n<p>Feig has also directed episodes of TV series like\u00a0<em><strong>Arrested Development<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>30 Rock<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Parks And Recreation<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Mad Men<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>The Office<\/strong><\/em>, and is the creator of 1999 cult series\u00a0<em><strong>Freaks And Geeks<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal and Paul Feig are teaming up for Dark Army, a brand new monster movie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":110049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rexfeatures_9878548f-e1536675393359.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}