Brendan Fraser, who starred as Rick O’Connell in the original Mummy trilogy, reveals why he thinks Tom Cruise’s TheMummy reboot failed in 2017: 'It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie.'
Brendan Fraser offers his opinion on why Tom Cruise's reboot of The Mummy wasn't successful. Released in 1999, Stephen Sommers' The Mummy introduced audiences to Fraser's intrepid adventurer, Rick O'Connell. The film received somewhat mixed reviews from critics but was a hit at the box office, and was ultimately followed by two sequels, including The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY After lying dormant for almost 10 years, The Mummy franchise was brought back to life in 2017 with a film from director Alan Kurtzman. The reboot, which starred Cruise as mercenary Nick Morton, was a flop critically and commercially, earning only $410 million worldwide and falling far short of expectations. The movie follows Morton and his partner as they accidentally awaken Ahmanet , an ancient Egyptian princess who is determined to make the world feel her wrath.
“It is hard to make that movie. The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn’t see in that film, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie. The Mummy should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary. I know how difficult it is to pull it off. I tried to do it three times.”
Brendan Fraser Is Right About Tom Cruise's Mummy Movie Promoted more as an action-horror movie, Cruise's reboot ultimately felt like it had very little in common with any of Fraser's Mummy movies. While removing the sillier tone was certainly an intentional creative choice, the decision only made the film's heavy-handed universe-building and subsequent story problems even more apparent.
If it hadn't been solely responsible for setting up Universal's entire Dark Universe, Cruise's The Mummy likely would have been more effective. Even with its more serious, horror-oriented tone, the film does feature some impressive stunts and action sequences, and it potentially could have carved out its own successful space in the franchise that was separate from Fraser’s lighter and less scary Mummy movies.
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