Brendan Fraser believes Tom Cruise’s The Mummy failed as a result of it lacked any enjoyable.
The 56-year-old actor performed treasure hunter Rick O’Connell 3 times in Stephen Sommers’ Mummy franchise which was an enormous field workplace hit.
Cruise’s The Mummy was launched in 2017 and was imagined to spawn a Darkish Universe of linked movies primarily based on the Common Basic Monsters but it surely was a important and industrial failure and the concept to construct a cinematic monster universe was scrapped.
Fraser has now spoken out about why Cruise’s The Mummy flopped, insisting it lacked any of the journey or pleasure that Sommers’ movies had.
Talking at Fan Expo Denver, Brendan mentioned: “I do know Tom Cruise tried to make his film and it ain’t straightforward! Everyone knows how laborious this film is to make.
“Excluding three [The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor], the factor with all of those movies is that, not less than it was enjoyable, it was a thrill experience, and also you wished to do it once more.
“The reply is you’ve simply obtained to present all people what they actually, actually need. For those who stray from that path…”
Sommers directed the primary two instalments of the Fraser collection, which additionally starred Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Arnold Vosloo, and produced the third.
Sommers beforehand admitted he was not a fan of the reboot and was aggravated that director Alex Kurtzman or the writers David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie and Dylan Kussman by no means bothered to contact him to ask for any recommendation or pointers.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he mentioned: “I used to be form of insulted as a result of the writers and director of that Tom Cruise one, nobody ever contacted me.
“I contact individuals if I used to be going to take over any individual’s factor. The third one, which Rob [Cohen] directed, it’s form of my child. I didn’t need to step on his toes, so I helped produce it. However I had nothing to do with the Tom Cruise one. They by no means contacted me or known as me. I used to be doing different issues, and it’s not like I sat crying. I simply suppose it’s widespread courtesy.“
The Mummy is getting one other reboot from Evil Useless Rise director Lee Cronin who’s releasing his tackle the cursed Egyptian monster through New Line in April 2026. It’s the first movie in The Mummy franchise to not be distributed by Common Footage.
Cronin has vowed that his imaginative and prescient for the movie “might be not like any Mummy film you have ever laid eyeballs on earlier than”.
He added: “I’m digging deep into the earth to boost one thing very historical and really horrifying.”
