![]() There’s no reason why Universal couldn’t have started with a mid-budgeted horror movie and worked its way up from there.īy that same token, the UNDERWORLD and RESIDENT EVIL movie franchises have demonstrated that with a mid-level budget, you can make exciting movies that are consistently both action & horror without betraying either. Audiences today are clambering for the next big, exciting horror movie. That gave audiences plenty of time to fall in love with the characters to care about their slugfests. While its original movies were horror-dramas, they eventually evolved into action-horror movies. Universal’s “Dark Universe” could’ve truly stood out if only it’d fully committed to its horror. Regardless of my love for the action-horror genre and my unpopular opinion that MUMMY (2017)’s horror scenes were among the few things it got right, horror is enjoying a renaissance, with movies like GET OUT (2017), IT FOLLOWS (2015), THE CONJURING SERIES, and THE PURGE SERIES showing how very much is possible within it. Audiences had plenty of reason to wonder if MUMMY (2017) was a sequel or reboot or wonder why Brendan Fraser didn’t return. It’s not been that long since THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (2008), which came out 7 years following THE MUMMY RETURNS (2001). THE MUMMY (1999) IS a fan favorite, and if Universal doesn’t have enough evidence of this from its box office success and continued DVD sales, it certainly does from the fact that The Mummy is STILL a major ride at their theme parks. There’s nothing wrong on paper with making a Mummy movie, but in the age of reboots, you have to be especially careful about audience burnout and the optics of sullying a fan favorite. Spoilers: EVERYONE has done that, and THE MUMMY hasn’t looked good because of it. Nobody liked that either.ĮXEC 2: Creature from the Black Lagoon? Invisible Man?ĮXEC 1: Yeah! We could blow around sandstorms, destroy cities, and do all kinds of crazy stuff!ĮXEC 3, who has been silent all this time: But won’t audiences just compare that with the popular MUMMY 1999 franchise?ĮXEC 1: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE! Who’s our most popular one?ĮXEC 1: Yeah! But nobody liked DRACULA UNTOLD (2014), and we jumped the gun on making that our shared continuity movie.ĮXEC 1: But other companies made I, FRANKENSTEIN (2014) and VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN (2015), and nobody liked those.ĮXEC 1: WOLFMAN (2010). ![]() You can actually reverse-engineer the decision disturbingly easily.ĮXEC 1: We want to make a shared continuity universe like Marvel has, because those make money. And those bad decisions are Legion, for they are many. Nearly every decision made regarding Alex Kurtzman’s THE MUMMY was the result of bad decisions, mostly on the part of executives.
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