| MovieWeb is reporting that Len Wiseman's reboot of the Universal classic "The Mummy" will be set in Modern time s and have nothing to do with previous remakes: "There was skepticism. The difference between the two, if The Mummy is to be the next movie for me, is that The Mummy is a completely different film. It is a modern day take. It doesn't have anything to do with the Brendan Fraser films, and it is not a remake of any kind. "The Mummy is one of Universal's long standing, iconic characters, well before the Brendan Fraser movies… This is such a different thing. What was attractive to me…There is still a script to be written, and all of that….But the pitch was to go with a much different tone. It was a Mummy like I'd never heard of before. Its nothing like what you would expect, at all, oddly. I was picturing Egypt, and the sand swept settings. The mummy wrappings. When I heard what they were wanting to actually do with it, it was shocking…" Check out the Update on Len Wiseman's Mummy Reboot. |  |
Update on Len Wiseman’s Mummy Reboot
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