This week, we venture into the Dark Universe — but not for long — in Alex Kurtzman’s 2017 reboot The Mummy. Is it broken at a conceptual level? How much do we miss Brendan Fraser? Does Elizabeth come up with the best ever Trailer Game joke?
Unanswered Questions:
- Is the Dark Universe, narratively, a coherent shared universe?
- Is there a feminist reading of Ancient Egypt presented in this film?
- Does Tom Cruise unbalance the film, or does he save it from being an even greater disaster?
Further reading:
- The Mummy! A Tale Of The Twenty-Second Century (Jane Webb)
- The Mummy (1932)
- Universal Monsters
- The Mummy, Or Ramses The Damned (Anne Rice)
- The Mummy (1999)
- The Mummy Returns (2001)
- Atomic Blonde (2017)
- Drunk History
- Drinking Buddies (2013)
- Mythic Quest
- Minx
- The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
- The Mummy IMAX Trailer
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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Join us next week as we round out Cruise’s penultimate, experimental trilogy with Doug Liman’s 2017 action-comedy American Made!
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