The Mummy 2017 Reboot Director Calls Flop His Biggest Failure
Writer-director Alex Kurtzman recently called his The Mummy reboot film his biggest failure. Released in 2017, the Tom Cruise-led monster-horror was intended by Universal to be the launchpad for their new Dark Universe franchise, which would see the return of classic monster characters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man. Due to The Mummy's combined critical and box office failure, the shared universe was quickly scrapped for stand-alone films.
Kurtzman sought to revitalize a franchise that first terrified audiences in 1932 when Boris Karloff played the iconic resurrected mummy Imhotep. The IP again dominated the box office in the spring of 1999 with the reboot of the same name starring Brendan Fraser as adventurer Rick O'Connell. With the bar set high, the pressure was weighed heavily on Kurtzman for the reboot's success. The latest version saw Tom Cruise star as Sergeant Nick Morton, who accidentally awakens princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella) from her prison tomb. Introducing a secret society called Prodigium, led by Russel Crowe's Dr. Henry Jekyll, laid the foundation for the introduction of the vast catalog of monsters in Universal's library.
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In a recent interview with The Playlist for their podcast Bingeworthy, Kurtzman described The Mummy reboot's failure as one of the biggest in his career. During the podcast with Kurtzman and his creative partner Jenny Lumet, the conversation turned to Kurtzman's takeaways from his colossal flop, where he described it as both a personal and professional defeat that left him filled with regret. Read what Kurtzman said about the experience below.
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