The Mummy Will Terrify!
Steve Barton
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We’re all looking forward to seeing what Universal does with the Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe (UMCU) it’s building, and it sounds as if Uni isn’t afraid to show off the creatures’ dark sides. During an interview with THR writer Jon Spaihts had the following to say about the new version of The Mummy.
“In The Mummy I think we’re going to see the first Mummy film in the entire Universal canon with the true power to terrify. The earliest [Boris] Karloff and Bela Lugosi Mummy movies were scary in a small way, perhaps a dated way. They were almost parlor movies. Subsequent movies have been more swashbuckling. This one is going to have all of that action and adventure, but a legitimate power to terrify. I think that’s going to be the new experience of that film.”
The film stars Tom Cruise as a special forces soldier (or former soldier); Sofia Boutella as the iconic monster; Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll; Annabelle Wallis as the film’s female lead, an archaeologist; along with Jake Johnson and Courtney B. Vance.
The studio tapped Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan to help develop a monster universe for Universal with rebooted versions of classic monster movies. Kurtzman is also on board to produce alongside Morgan and Sean Daniel.
Spaihts is penning the script. Plot details are vague other than the fact that the film will be set in the present day, unlike the previous three installments starring Brendan Fraser.
Universal executive VP of production Jon Mone and VP of development Jay Polidoro will oversee the project for the studio.
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