Simon Soul

Simon Soul is a attempt at a cinematic universe as a result of the success of The Marvel Cinematic Universe. The attempt was made by Summit Entertainment and after a executive at summit entertainment had seen the 1990 movie Darkman, he had a idea and decided to make it a dark superhero movie. So in order to do so, he brought together some of the people who worked on Darkman including Sam Raimi, Danny Elfman, and Jonathan Sheffer. Plus he brought on Tim Burton as director and co-writer to bring the darkness he was known for into the movie with the executive giving Burton and Raimi full creative control over it. But of course because of several disagreements, actors leaving then coming back, and creative issues, the film was in development hell for 5 years with it finally resulting in a 2027 dark, supernatural, superhero movie. But the film bombed at the box office because of it being sandwiched between Avengers vs X-Men and Justice League 3: Darkseid Wars on the same week. Fortunately it did good critically with both Critics and Audiences and plus it did good once it went to video. This caused Summit Entertainment to continue with their plans on their cinematic universe.