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Funko Just Cancelled the Tom Cruise POP! Vinyl Toy from ‘The Mummy’
Sorry, Cruise fans.
We told you out of Toy Fair in February that Funko was releasing three POP! vinyl toys based on this summer’s The Mummy, with the title character getting two and Tom Cruise’s character Nick Morton getting one. If you planned on collecting all three, well, don’t count on it. Because while the Ahmanet toys are hitting shelves, Morton isn’t coming along with them.
Universal Monsters Universe confirms this week that Funko has for whatever reason cancelled the Nick Morton POP! toy. The site speculates that Cruise himself is to blame for this one:
While “licensing issues” was the reason cited for the cancellation of the first POP vinyl figure of Tom Cruise, there’s reason to believe that Cruise was the reason for its cancellation. The actor is known for not allowing his likeness to be used for merchandising and it is quite possible that this is what ultimately led to the cancellation of the Nick Morton POP!
Who is Nick Morton? It’s been rumored that he’ll either become the new Mummy or a Van Helsing-like character who will appear throughout Universal’s new universe.
But for now, those are only rumors.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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