The Best Mummy Reboot Would Pit Brendan Fraser Against Other Universal Monsters
Fans of Brendan Fraser would love a Mummy legacy sequel, but the best reboot would pit Fraser's Rick O'Connell against other classic Universal Monsters. The '90s saw studios give classic screen monsters big-budget revivals, such as Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula or Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein. Universal spent much of the decade trying to mount a fresh take on The Mummy, with horror greats such as Clive Barker, Wes Craven and George A. Romero all developing horror-focused remakes.
It was Stephen Sommers who hit on the notion of combining The Mummy with Indiana Jones, and the resulting 1999 blockbuster was a major success. The movie spawned two direct sequels and a long-running spin-off series with The Scorpion King movies. There was once talk of a fourth Mummy movie featuring the return of Brendan Fraser's O'Connell, but that project fell apart. Instead, Universal tried to build a cinematic universe around its famous monsters library. Despite sprawling plans for this «Dark Universe,» the concept fell at the first hurdle due to the box-office disappointment of 2017's The Mummy reboot, fronted by Tom Cruise.
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Ironically, the studio's attempts to reverse engineer its Univeral Monsters into action franchises ignored that 1999's The Mummy already provided a solid action/horror template. After his career dipped in the years following 2008's The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, Fraser has been on a comeback trail, especially thanks to upcoming projects such as Batgirl and Scorsese's Killers Of The Flower Moon. A revival of The Mummy would really cement his return, but instead of resurrecting Imhotep once again, the reboot should see O'Connell fighting
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