One dark world starring Hollywood stars that went to the disappointment of its first and ambitious film starring Tom Cruise
Eight years ago, Universal Pictures tried to create a universe of connected films, similar to Marvel’s film universe, which did not go well. The idea of study for your “Dark Universe“It was to bring back the classic cinema monsters with a cast full of stars such as Russell Crowe, Angelina Jolie, Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp, starting with a great production starring Tom Cruise, a whole figure of the mainstream cinema, but The ambitious dark universe began and ended with its first film.
Released in 2017 under the baton of Alex Kurtzman, the first film of this great plan was The mummya ‘reboot’ of the famous saga starring Brendan Fraser almost two decades ago. In it, Tom Cruise played Nick Morton, a former soldier specialized in search of treasures who has to face the greatest challenge of his career: an old millenary princess has awakened in his crypt, centuries after having been betrayed by his own father and eager to revenge.
The film did not succeed with the criticism or at the box office. What was supposed to be the beginning of a great film universe and that it had had a huge budget became a failure.
The film received mostly negative criticism They pointed out that the story had no soul, lacked a definite tone and seemed more like a project to highlight Cruise than an adventure film with its own identity. “Cruise offers little daring and charm to the film, although to be fair to the actor, his character is tenacious,” he wrote The Hollywood Reporter. However, most praise stood out that it did work as an entertainment product.
Its score of 15% by the specialized press according to the aggregator of criticism Rotten Tomatoes makes it clear that the film did not work very well, while, Commercial, it was saved by hairs with its little more than 400 of collected dollars.
So Universal, who had already announced his intention to carry out a Dark Universe full of monsters embodied by known faces -Sofia Boutella was the mummy, Johnny Depp the invisible man, Javier Bardem Frankenstein, Russell Crowe the Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde- decided to abort mission and changed the strategy.
Of the initial plans of the study only realized The invisible manwhich was a success, but now The mummy is ready to return with a new version De Blumhouse and Atomic Monster, two companies specialized in low -budget horror films but with great impact, and with Warner Bros. as a partner. The director and screenwriter in charge is Lee Cronin and promises a completely new approach to history.
The film that destroyed a whole universe of fantasy and terror: it is one of Tom Cruise’s great failures
The production of The mummy It is already underway in Ireland and the cast, as in the previous film, seems promising, with actors such as Laia Costa, Jack Reynor, May Calamawy, Veronica Falcon and Mai Elghety. Although the exact plot is not yet known, what is known is that this new version is not related to previous productions, or with the Cruise movie or Brendan Fraser’s.
