Universal appears to be operating in two different realities at the moment:
One in which The Mummy has already come out, wowed fans around the world and more than made back its $125m budget thus paving the way for the Dark Universe, i.e., Javier Bardem's Frankenstein's Monster, Bill Condon's Bride of Frankenstein, Johnny Depp's Invisible Man and Russell Crowe's Dr. Jekyll and ...