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.)
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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 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.
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