![]() Gone are the days of The Last Samurai, Oblivion, Jack Reacher and Knight and Day. ![]() It is with great pain then, that I inform you that the era of barely-passable Tom Cruise movies has come to an end. In fact, he often brightens up some movies that would no doubt have been rather terrible were it not for his hubristic thirst to push himself with every role. Blame its ancestors.Īs dismal things are, as dismal as things can be, if there is one thing we can be sure of in this world, it is that Tom Cruise never gives a bad performance. Don’t even blame Marvel, and their decade-long, industry-altering series of cross-connected films. It was, in many ways, the original shared universe one that laid the foundation for the trend we’re witnessing these days.īut don’t blame The Mummy. ![]() The initial burst of Universal Monster movies – films like Dracula, Frankenstein, and the original Mummy – lasted three decades, through the silent era and into the age of the talkies, and made stars out of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney Jr. But for a moment, through the fog of cynicism, there was hope. On paper, it’s as corporate as movies can get in this current landscape of endless interconnected universes. It’s as if they already know they need to add bells and whistles to what they’re selling to brighten up the deal. The Mummy opens in theaters June 9th, 2017.It’s as if the studios are over-compensating. So he must trust Kurtzman's vision for the project.Ĭruise will star opposite Sofia Boutella ( Kingsman: The Secret Service), who will play the titular monster. His sole feature is the rather pleasant drama, People Like Us, which is a far cry from a tentpole monster movie. Yet, Tom Cruise apparently has faith in him behind the camera and he has an excellent track record for collaborating with talented filmmakers. Based on Kurtzman's directorial work, it's hard to say if he's up to the challenge. We recently saw Victor Frankenstein struggle with telling a character-driven story geared more towards modern audiences. We will hopefully serve it up good and plenty. So it's more about how you blend the different elements and stay true to each one, but there will definitely be horror in the monster movies. It was the first to combine horror with - I wouldn't say action, but certainly a lot of suspense. In some way, Mummy, dating all the way back to the Karloff movie, was the first to do that. The tricky part is actually how you combine horror with either adventure or suspense or action and be true to all the genres together. It is our life goal to make a horror movie. Yeah, I think it's a fair response and it's actually not - I think there was some lost in translation quality to the way it was received, because I promise you there will be horror in these movies. Since Universal wants to make huge tentpole films out of their classic characters, it was reported at one point The Mummy and other projects would only be "action-adventure movies," with little horror. Other monsters are expected to make cameos, before, if all goes according to plan, they appear in an " Avengers-style" picture together. Cruise will not produce the film, but it's said he'll be a major player in the development process. ![]() Originally scheduled to open next March, The Mummy will instead hit theaters on June 9th, 2017. Variety confirms that Cruise will star in the film. Learn more about the project and The Mummy release date after the jump. Having an actor of Cruise's caliber involved probably played a hand in the studio's decision to open the tentpole film in the summer. Now, it's been confirmed Cruise will indeed star in director Alex Kurtzman's ( People Like Us) remake of The Mummy. Months ago it was reported Tom Cruise was in negotiations to headline Universal's third recent attempt to revive their classic monsters.
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