MUMMY Reboot: Universal planning 'dark' franchise restart

[Dream]

The "Mummy" reboot you've been waiting for has finally arrived? Variety reports that Jon Spaihts will write the script for "The Mummy," which was last seen onscreen in 2008.

Spaihts also wrote "Prometheus" (though Damon Lindelof, credited as "Prometheus" co-writer, has been getting the lion's share of pre-release buzz), and he told Variety that the new version of "The Mummy" would be "dark" in nature. His only other screen credit is the 2011 bomb "The Darkest Hour," which came and went from theaters with little audience interest last December.

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I can't believe that they are doing a reboot already. That terrible third movie was only four years ago!

 

[Kemaiku]

Already? I thought the Peru remark at the end of the third film was a hint at a fourth, how can they reboot the franchise if the previous incarnation is still going? on did they cancel any plans for a fourth?

 

[Skywalker]

With any luck, they did cancel plans for a fourth.

Now that they're rebooting The Mummy, I think it'd be cool if, after the first movie, they have whatever main character(s) they come up with go off and encounter other Universal Monsters in future films, like Dracula and the Wolf Man, rather than dealing only with the Mummy. Kind of like Van Helsing, but good.

 

[Greg Cox]

With any luck, they did cancel plans for a fourth.

Now that they're rebooting The Mummy, I think it'd be cool if, after the first movie, they have whatever main character(s) they come up with go off and encounter other Universal Monsters in future films, like Dracula and the Wolf Man, rather than dealing only with the Mummy. Kind of like Van Helsing, but good.

That would be fun . . .

And it's not like the Mummy has never been rebooted before. The Mummy's Hand back in the forties was basically a reboot of the original Karloff film. And then there was the Hammer Films remake with Christopher Lee . . . .

I guess every decade gets its own Mummy!

 

[pork3]

The "Mummy" reboot you've been waiting for has finally arrived? Variety reports that Jon Spaihts will write the script for "The Mummy," which was last seen onscreen in 2008.

Spaihts also wrote "Prometheus" (though Damon Lindelof, credited as "Prometheus" co-writer, has been getting the lion's share of pre-release buzz), and he told Variety that the new version of "The Mummy" would be "dark" in nature. His only other screen credit is the 2011 bomb "The Darkest Hour," which came and went from theaters with little audience interest last December.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...1403917.html#s290097&title=Mummies_Around_The

I can't believe that they are doing a reboot already. That terrible third movie was only four years ago!

Don't see the need, but this is Hollywood.
All of it sounds promising but the idea that the writer of that pile of shit "The Darkest Hour" is getting a stab at this is a bit of a cause for concern.

-Jamman

 

[Greg Cox]

The "Mummy" reboot you've been waiting for has finally arrived? Variety reports that Jon Spaihts will write the script for "The Mummy," which was last seen onscreen in 2008.

Spaihts also wrote "Prometheus" (though Damon Lindelof, credited as "Prometheus" co-writer, has been getting the lion's share of pre-release buzz), and he told Variety that the new version of "The Mummy" would be "dark" in nature. His only other screen credit is the 2011 bomb "The Darkest Hour," which came and went from theaters with little audience interest last December.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...1403917.html#s290097&title=Mummies_Around_The

I can't believe that they are doing a reboot already. That terrible third movie was only four years ago!

Don't see the need, but this is Hollywood.

-Jamman

Although, just to play devil's advocate, what was the need for the Brendan Fraser remake? After all, Hollywood has been remaking THE MUMMY since the forties.

It's not like the 80's version wasn't also a reboot.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

They should do a "dark" Scoprion King.

 

[Kemaiku]

With any luck, they did cancel plans for a fourth.

Now that they're rebooting The Mummy, I think it'd be cool if, after the first movie, they have whatever main character(s) they come up with go off and encounter other Universal Monsters in future films, like Dracula and the Wolf Man, rather than dealing only with the Mummy. Kind of like Van Helsing, but good.

As a standalone movie celebrating Universal's anniversary of it's monster movies I loved Van Helsing, and I do like the Mummy films, the third was much weaker than the first two but still enjoyable.

And I'm not opposed to a remake, I like updated monster movies every now and then, but it is a little bit soon to be rebooting this one when there hasn't been a full big screen Dracula reboot since 1992.

 

[Saga]

i enjoyed the recent Mummy series...even the last film was dumb fun. but i'm fine with a reboot. a dark take sounds good to me. i always though it would have been cool if Rick and co. from the previous series eventually went up against some Egyptian gods.

 

[Kemaiku]

^When I first watched The Mummy back in '99 I thought Anubis was going to manifest in some way and be the one to drag Imhotep back to the underworld himself.

 

[pork3]

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I can't believe that they are doing a reboot already. That terrible third movie was only four years ago!

Don't see the need, but this is Hollywood.

-Jamman

Although, just to play devil's advocate, what was the need for the Brendan Fraser remake? After all, Hollywood has been remaking THE MUMMY since the forties.

It's not like the 80's version wasn't also a reboot.

That comment was certainly biased by my preference for the Sommers' interpretation of the Mummy franchise.

-Jamman

 

[RoJoHen]

Damn. Though I didn't find the 3rd movie to be all that great, I really enjoyed the characters from the Brendan Fraser movies. I would not have minded if they had continued with that series.

 

[Kemaiku]

It would have been interesting to see what they did with the Peruvian mummies, although I'm not sure what main villain they could have had for it.

 

[RoJoHen]

They should accidentally revive Imhotep again. Always good fun.

 

[pork3]

Though I didn't find the 3rd movie to be all that great

That's an understatement. That third movie was a train wreck, made more obvious by Rachel Weisz not opting to take part. Everything from the story to the direction was pedestrian and insipid.

-Jamman

 

[RoJoHen]

I wouldn't go that far. It was epically mediocre, but calling it a train wreck seems a bit of a stretch. It was just generally "meh."

 

[Kemaiku]

They should accidentally revive Imhotep again. Always good fun.

Underground waterway that connects Egypt to Peru?

 

[Skywalker]

It would have been interesting to see what they did with the Peruvian mummies, although I'm not sure what main villain they could have had for it.

The mummy of an evil, brutal Spanish conquistador who was cursed by the Inca in retaliation for destroying their city and trying to steal their gold.

 

[RoJoHen]

They should accidentally revive Imhotep again. Always good fun.

Underground waterway that connects Egypt to Peru?

He's in the afterlife now because that bitch of his wouldn't save his life. I'm sure there is some crazy hieroglyph (a stork, perhaps?) that can be used to re-corporealize him in Peru.

 

[Greg Cox]

Don't see the need, but this is Hollywood.

-Jamman

Although, just to play devil's advocate, what was the need for the Brendan Fraser remake? After all, Hollywood has been remaking THE MUMMY since the forties.

It's not like the 80's version wasn't also a reboot.

That comment was certainly biased by my preference for the Sommers' interpretation of the Mummy franchise.

-Jamman

Understood. I was just adding some unasked-for historical perspective!

Then again, I grew up on Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr.