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Javier Bardem as Frankenstein?

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Michael Tran/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — He won an Oscar for playing the cold-blood killer Anton Chigurh in 2007’s No Country for Old Men.  More recently, Javier Bardem played the cunning, vengeful former agent Silva in the James Bond movie Skyfall.  But will be be playing the most iconic monster of all?

Bardem is in negotiations to join Universal’s Monsters Universe as no less than the Frankenstein monster himself, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

If he inks the deal, Bardem will join Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe in the studio’s rebooting of their 85-year-old classic monster cinematic universe.  Cruise and Crowe will be in the universe’s debut film, The Mummy — Cruise plays a Special Forces soldier and Crowe portrays Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The Mummy is in production now, due out next year.

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