Monday Oct 11, 2021

The Mummy (2017)

Ancient, malevolent, desiccated human remains with eerie power (Tom Cruise) get into a fight with some Egyptian chick. This was the movie that launched and then immediately sank Universal's "Dark Universe" project, for reasons that are painfully clear on screen. 

SHOW NOTES: 

Variety article on the problems with leaving a film under Cruise control: https://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-mummy-meltdown-tom-cruise-1202465742/ 

The original, "too big to fail" launch of the Dark Universe, containing the iconic picture in which all actors in the project are absolutely, definitely in the same room as one another: https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/05/22/dark-universe-announced-as-universal-monsters-shared-universe-depp-bardem-condon-and-elfman-confirmed 

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