by Benjamin Haines » Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:27 am
This actually looks pretty interesting. The Mummy was the defining summer blockbuster of 1999 for me and it remains one of my favorite adventure movies. I still think of it as a modern movie even though it's pushing 18 years old at this point, although its last sequel did come out just eight years ago, the same summer as Iron Man and The Dark Knight, so it's not like the franchise has laid dormant for very long. I was afraid this was just going to be a rehash of the '99 film with Tom Cruise in Brendan Fraser's role and a gender-swapped Imhotep but the trailer suggests a totally different premise. I'm intrigued.