![]() ![]() It’s safe to assume that Cruise will make it out of this movie alive - if not unscathed - so he can wreak havoc in a sequel that unites him with the monsters from other films. ![]() When a bumbling Nick wakes her up in the present day, she decides that he would be the perfect new vessel for these deadly powers and pursues him across the world in hopes of stabbing him with a magic dagger that will turn him into a monster (and give him two pupils, apparently). She was interrupted mid-casting of an evil curse that would have imbued her mortal boyfriend with the powers of the god of death. The titular mummy (Sofia Boutella) was mummified and buried alive after trying to incite a coup when her pharaoh father gave her birthright to her baby brother 5,000 years ago. In Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy, Tom Cruise plays a new character named Nick Morton. (Their faith may be misplaced: Wonder Woman, in its second weekend, is set to bury The Mummy at the box office.) But the movie flailed at the box office, so Universal is betting on Tom Cruise to launch the extended universe instead. Originally the 2014 film Dracula Untold starring Luke Evans was supposed to set up the franchise. Technically, the “Dark Universe” already exists. Some original Mummy fans are upset that Fraser was replaced as the franchise’s star, but he seems to be okay with it. The new movie takes place in present day, and the Mummy is female instead of male. (The late, great Roger Ebert wrote: “There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it.”) But it was a hit at the box office and spawned two sequels and a spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson, then billed as The Rock.įraser’s Rick O’Connell does not appear in the Tom Cruise film, nor do any other characters from the original movies. In 1999, Fraser and Rachel Weisz starred in a movie also called The Mummy about a group of 1920s explorers who accidentally unearth a very angry undead priest. This Mummy has nothing to do with Brendan Fraser’s Mummy Adept to comedy and suspense in equal turns, and with a penchant for the sparkling wit that Feig loves to add to his work, the writer/director could breathe new life into this extremely fitting franchise.The universe has been long in the works, though it’s still unclear whether The Invisible Man and Frankenstein’s Monster can battle Superman and Iron Man at the box office. Thought the Universal Monsters will have their day at the movies again thanks to Paul Feig’s upcoming Dark Army project he’s now working on. It’s only fair that The Mummy would be allowed to take that same tactic, and bring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz back together to potentially finish the series in style, if not resurrect it for a continued partnership that would please fans all over.Īs of this moment, it doesn’t look like any big plans are in the works for The Mummy, as the failure of the 2017 reboot has probably buried that title for a couple of years. Robocop Returns and Terminator: Dark Fate are both looking to wipe the slate clean, and dial things back to overwrite the less favored entries in their respective series. Legacyquels are sometimes a method of righting the wrongs of franchises who lost their way. If we’re to do The Mummy justice, let’s start by giving it a sequel it deserves, and potentially the ending it needs to be a complete and consistently good trilogy. That right there makes the film easy to forget about, but the general boredom that movie inspired was so antithetical to what Stephen Sommers’ previous films gave us. With a story and execution that felt like a cheap imitation of the previously polished franchise, it didn’t even let fans say good bye to Rachel Weisz’s Evie, as she refused to return for this third film. ![]() That fate has certainly befallen the Brendan Fraser variant of The Mummy, as seen in its ill-advised threequel The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and it’s also why at least one final Mummy movie is in order. If one isn’t careful, it could turn into one hell of a mess that sees everything that made it so special fall away. We Can’t Let The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor End The Seriesīringing back a franchise like The Mummy is definitely dangerous. ![]()
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