Overview
- At Fan Expo Denver, Brendan Fraser said Tom Cruise’s 2017 The Mummy failed because it lacked the fun and excitement of the original trilogy
- The Cruise-led reboot holds a 15% Rotten Tomatoes score and lost an estimated $100 million, sinking Universal’s planned Dark Universe
- Director Alex Kurtzman has called the film the “biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally”
- Universal canceled its monsterverse strategy after the flop, shelving planned follow-ups in the Dark Universe
- Lee Cronin, director of Evil Dead Rise, will write and direct a horror-focused Mummy reboot set to debut via New Line Cinema in April 2026