Newslink : 'The Mummy' Reboot Trailer Unwraps Secrets of the Monsters Shared Universe
The first trailer for The Mummy is pitting Tom Cruise against a 5,000-year-old threat.
Last week, Heat Vision was in attendance as director Alex Kurtzman showed off the trailer and extra footage to a small group of reporters, and revealed details of Universal’s planned shared universe featuring its monsters (Javier Bardem is on board for a future Frankenstein film, while Johnny Depp has signed on for The Invisible Man)…….
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My God...This has been done to death and not one has come close to the classics with Karloff- The Mummy or Frankenstein. In the case of Frankenstein, they focus on the monster and not the story that the book tells (even the Karloff classic). That's what I'd like to see. The "pop culture" mummies never captured the essence of the original so they replace it with gimmicky plot twists and special effects. Give it up!