Paparazzi in Oxford, England snapped shots of Tom Cruise filming scenes in Universal Pictures’ new The Mummy.
The shots, which you can see by clicking here, show Cruise and co-star Annabelle Wallis looking terrified of something.
There’s unfortunately no shots of Sofia Boutella, the Algerian actress who is playing the film’s monster.
The plot thickens in new details that reveal…
Cruise plays Navy Seal Tyler Colt who goes on a mission in the Iraqi desert to find a group of terrorists hiding out in a bunker.
However their prey turn out to be mere grave robbers who have all magically died, and when they go inside the bunker Tyler and his team also succumb to some mystical forces out of their control, which is when they realise they are actually in an ancient tomb.
While his men end up turning on each other, Cruise’s character is the only one make it all the way deep within the tomb alive and find an ominous black iron sarcophagus.
After he tries to open it he is stabbed in the palm and his mind is cursed with visions of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, more informally known as The Mummy.
Alex Kurtzman, who wrote Cowboys and Aliens and Transformers is directing what’s to be the staple to building the new Universal Monsters line.
Jon Spaihts is penning the script. Plot details are vague other than the fact that the pic will be set in the present day, unlike the previous three installments starring Brendan Fraser.
Universal is planning an Avengers-style universe, which means we should expect Cruise to appear in other tie-ins down the road. We should get another Van Helsing after we see Frankenstein, and his Bride, the Wolf Man, the Creature From the Black Lagoon and even the Invisible Man back in theaters. (There’s talk of Scarlett Johansson toplining the Creature From the Black Lagoon reboot with the studio targeting Angelina Jolie Pitt for the leading role in Bride of Frankenstein.)
The film will be unwrapped on June 9, 2017.
