When the iconic 1999 movie The Mummy was rebooted with Tom Cruise in 2017, Brendan Fraser made his thoughts very clear.
Ah, the perfect movie… does it even exist? Of course, everybody has different tastes and will happily defend their selections of perfect films. For lots of viewers, on the other hand, none holds quite so much nostalgia and excitement as The Mummy. Released in 1999, it starred Brendan Fraser as Rick O’Connell, an adventurer who teams with Egyptologist Evelyn (played by Rachel Weisz) when the unearthing of a mummy unleashes a powerful supernatural force upon the world. It’s one of the most iconic films of the action-adventure genre, but the same cannot be said of its 2017 reboot.
Brendan Fraser has gone on record about 2017 The Mummy reboot
The Mummy was released in 2017 as a reboot of the franchise that starred Brendan between 1999 and 2008, spanning three movies up until the trilogy’s conclusion, The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
Replacing Brendan as the new face of the series was Tom Cruise, who has proven more than capable of headlining a franchise across his immensely successful career. However, the blockbuster ultimately underperformed at the box office and caused the studio to scrap plans for a cinematic universe.
Audiences have gone on record slating the film, and it turns out Brendan’s seen it and wasn’t a fan either. He once took to social media about the film, using the hashtag “Not my Mummy”, but it didn’t end there.
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He later spoke with Variety and during the interview, he weighed in with his thoughts on why the reboot failed to work and recapture the magic of the 1999 classic.
“It is hard to make that movie,” he argued. “The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn’t see in that film, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie. The Mummy should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary.”
Being somewhat more charitable, he admitted: “I know how difficult it is to pull it off. I tried to do it three times.”
Brendan Fraser would be open to starring in The Mummy 4
When asked in the same interview if he’d ever be up for resurrecting his Mummy franchise for a fourth installment, he delighted fans by saying he would.
“I don’t know how it would work,” he clarified. “But I’d be open to it if someone came up with the right concept.”
Since then, Brendan’s career has undergone a significant resurgence, and he’s a darling among movie fans, perhaps now more than ever. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for the 2022 drama The Whale, in which he plays a severely overweight school teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter.
He also starred in the epic western Killers Of The Flower Moon alongside Leonardo DiCaprio just last year, with a couple of exciting projects in the pipeline as we speak.
When asked about The Mummy 4 by Deadline last year, he elaborated on earlier comments and said: “I’m not opposed to it. I don’t know an actor that doesn’t want a job. I don’t think I’ve been this famous and unsalaried at the same time in my professional life, so sign me up.”
Please, whoever and wherever you are. Movie gods? Make it happen.
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