Everything We Know About The Mummy
Universal Pictures along with director Alex Kurtzman are rebooting The Mummy from scratch and switching up everything fans know about the previous entries.
The Cast and Crew
Tom Cruise takes the leading role as a special forces soldier dispatched to the Middle-East in what he and his team believe is a mission to strike at a terrorist cell in Iraq. Instead they accidentally stumble upon an ancient mummified Queen played by Sofia Boutella.
Annabelle Wallis star opposite Cruise as archaeologist Jenny Halsey, while Russell Crowe is a Dr. Henry Jekyll. Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, Javier Botet and Marwan Kenzari also feature.
Alex Kurtzman is in the director' chair for The Mummy who directed 2012's People Like Us and co-wrote 2009’s Star Trek and 2013’s Star Trek: Into the Darkness. Kurtzman also serves as a producer on other Universal Pictures projects resurrect classic movie monsters, such as 2018's The Invisble Man starring Johnny Depp.
Christopher McQuarrie and Jon Spaihts are the writers for the reboot with McQuarrie having worked on Jack Reacher and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, and Spaihts on Doctor Strange and Prometheus.
Less Camp, More Horror
The previous films under The Mummy moniker which starred Brandon Fraser were set during the colonial past when the British Empire had a sizeable presence in Egypt, where all the troubles began. It was an action adventure with a supernatural bad guy looking to put himself back together, and thanks to the curse placed upon him he needed to kill and consume those who disturbed his tomb. Things take a decidedly different turn with the reboot.
The Mummy in 2017 isn't set during the past and isn't quite as 'light hearted' or campy as the originals and instead makes events take place in the modern day from the Middle-East to London, England. It also ditches the 'swashbuckling' action adventure for a more straight forward horror action vibe.
Thought safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen (Sofia Boutella of Kingsman: The Secret Service and Star Trek Beyond) 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.
In the words of co-star Russell Crowe: "This one is kind of more designed to seriously scare the s— out of you.” Screenwriter Jon Spaihts added his comments saying this maybe the first Mummy film "in the entire Universal canon with the true power to terrify." Spaihts continued: "Subsequent movies have been more swashbuckling. This one is going to have all of that action and adventure, but a legitimate power to terrify."
Release Dates
Universal Pictures has currently schedule The Mummy to be in UK, US and European cinemas June 9th, 2017.
Teasers and Trailers
So far little has been shown about the movie but a 15 second teaser has been released that promises a more substantial trailer is coming Sunday, December 4th.
