Yahoo News Tom Cruise says The Mummy will be "intense"
Unless you've been trapped under an ancient Egyptian pyramid for the last few years, you'll know that Universal has hit the reboot button on The Mummy franchise to be part of their (sigh) shared movie universe.
In an attempt to make this movie a success, the studio has hired Tom Cruise as the leading man and they've thrown out the campiness of the brilliant two films from the early noughties (and the rubbish third one) and gone all dark and gritty.
Speaking at a livestreamed launch event (from about 14 minutes in) in Los Angeles, Cruise said the film was "very intense", as if all the trailers didn't already make that obvious.
But Cruise also said the new Mummy was "full of adventure, and also very funny, we're really playing with a lot of tones" – which is good news for fans of the Brendan Fraser ones.
Elsewhere in the livestream, the cast joked about how working with Tom Cruise meant stunts, stunts, STUNTS – in this case zero-G stunts – and how they are lucky to be alive.
One person who wasn't in attendance was Russell Crowe, who will appear in this movie as none other than Dr Jekyll, kicking off the whole franchise/shared universe thing – because The Mummy is definitely where it starts.
Dracula Untold? No idea.
The Mummy will be released on June 9, 2017 in the UK and the US.
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