{"id":249643,"date":"2025-07-09T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249643\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:53:09","slug":"brendan-fraser-on-why-the-mummy-reboot-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249643\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser on why The Mummy reboot failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-mummy-2017-wtf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mummy<\/a> attempted to launch the Dark Universe, a cinematic monster franchise that would eventually combine all the classic monsters. Despite the star power of Tom Cruise, it crashed and burned almost immediately, leaving all those future crossovers drifting away in the breeze. While speaking at Fan Expo Denver (via <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/the-mummy-brendan-fraser-tom-cruise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collider<\/a>), Brendan Fraser was asked what his version of The Mummy had over the reboot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know Tom Cruise tried to make his movie and it ain\u2019t easy! We all know how hard this movie is to make,\u201d Fraser said. \u201cWith the exception of three [The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor], the thing with all of these films is that, at least it was fun, it was a thrill ride, and you wanted to do it again.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Very true. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-mummy-1999-wtf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mummy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-mummy-returns-wtf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mummy Returns<\/a> probably won\u2019t ever appear on any prestigious Best Films of All Time list, they don\u2019t need to. They\u2019re pure, unapologetic fun. Thrilling adventures with memorable characters and impressive visual effects, all held together by Brendan Fraser\u2019s fantastic, endlessly charismatic performance. Hell, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/a> had its moments.<\/p>\n<p>        Related<br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) \u2013 What Happened to This Horror Movie?        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Sommers, who directed the first two installments of the Brendan Fraser series, wasn\u2019t a fan of the reboot, even saying he was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/the-mummy-turns-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insulted<\/a>\u201d when they never contacted him about it. \u201cI was kind of insulted because the writers and director [Alex Kurtzman] of that Tom Cruise one, no one ever contacted me,\u201d he said. \u201cI contact people if I was going to take over somebody\u2019s thing. The third one, which Rob [Cohen] directed, it\u2019s kind of my baby. I didn\u2019t want to step on his toes, so I helped produce it. But I had nothing to do with the Tom Cruise one. They never contacted me or called me. I was doing other things, and it\u2019s not like I sat crying. I just think it\u2019s common courtesy.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/cronin-mummy-wrapped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently wrapped production<\/a> on the latest incarnation of The Mummy, which will likely be very different from either the Fraser movies or the Cruise reboot. \u201cThis will be unlike any\u00a0Mummy\u00a0movie you ever laid eyeballs on before,\u201d Cronin teased. \u201cI\u2019m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.\u201d The film is set to reach theatres on\u00a0<strong>April 17, 2026<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2017, The Mummy attempted to launch the Dark Universe, a cinematic monster franchise that would eventually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[96406,77,3943,96407,96408,96409,96410,15763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brendan-fraser","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-the-mummy","12":"tag-the-mummy-1999","13":"tag-the-mummy-returns","14":"tag-the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor","15":"tag-tom-cruise","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114821018993897833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}