This Friday Tom Cruise battles The Mummy, Universal’s re-reboot that will launch their “Dark Universe” filled with all the classic monsters including The Mummy, Frankenstein, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, and even the Invisible Man.
Universal shared a handful of clips from the film, one of which shows the origin of Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), as well as a scene in which we’re introduced to Russell Crowe‘s Dr. Jekyll, who has the Mummy apprehended. The other two are more of character pieces for Cruise’s character, showing the initial plane crash we’ve seen in trailers and the other putting us in the middle of a war with him.
Cruise is joined in the Universal reboot by a cast including Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Star Trek Beyond), Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle, King Arthur, Peaky Blinders), Jake Johnson (Jurassic World), Russell Crowe and Courtney B. Vance (TV’s “American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson”).
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“Thought safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension.
From the sweeping sands of the Middle East through hidden labyrinths under modern-day London, The Mummy brings a surprising intensity and balance of wonder and thrills in an imaginative new take that ushers in a new world of gods and monsters.”
The creative team is led by director/producer Alex Kurtzman and producer Chris Morgan, who have been instrumental in growing some of the most successful franchises of the past several years—with Kurtzman writing or producing entries in the Transformers, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible series, and Morgan being the narrative engineer of the Fast & Furious saga as it has experienced explosive growth from its third chapter on. Sean Daniel, who produced the most recent Mummy trilogy, produces alongside Kurtzman and Morgan.
