The Mummy is getting yet another chance on the big screen with a new crew, story, and cast, and it confirms that at least one good thing came from Tom Cruise’s failed reboot in 2017. The classic horror monsters have been getting new life on the big screen for a while now, though not all of them succeeded. Some new versions made one too many changes to these monsters that ultimately didn’t work, while others were clever adaptations that won the audience over. As monsters like Frankestein’s creature prepare their return in the coming months, the Mummy is now also preparing its comeback. 431iu

Tom Cruise's The Mummy reboot tried and failed to kick off a new cinematic universe - and came at the expense of a planned Dracula Untold sequel. Shared universes became all the rage during the 2010s, with studios rushing to recreate the unprecedented success of the MCU. Only a handful of these took off though, such as Warner Bros' Monsterverse, while others - such as Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - sunk like stones. One of the more embarrassing examples came with 2017's The Mummy, which Universal proclaimed to be the start of their "Dark Universe".

The Mummy ending gives Tom Cruise's Nick Morton the power of the Egyptian god of death, Set, setting up a shared universe team-up that never happened. The Mummy (2017) was meant to kickstart Universal's Dark Universe with an MCU-style crossover between universal monsters like The Invisible Man (to be played by Johnny Depp) and Frankenstein’s Monster (played by Javier Bardem). However, the box office flop and critical lashing of The Mummy ended those plans before they started. The The Mummy ending includes a set-up for sequels and spin-offs that will never happen.

Screen Rant is digging into what happened with Universal's canceled Dark Universe.

Russell Crowe hasn't often appeared in horror movies, yet after the failure of his 2017 remake, The Mummy, his recent exorcism movies have partly made up for his horror losses. Crowe's acting career first began in 1990 when he featured in the Australian drama, Prisoners of the Sun. In the intervening years, Crowe has led some truly iconic films, from Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind to Robin Hood and Les Misérables. ThoughCrowe has certainly proved his chops as a dramatic actor, one genre he has not yet mastered is the horror movie, though this may be changing.

2017's reboot of The Mummywas meant to launch a new franchise for Universal called the Dark Universe, but it failed for several reasons and was ultimately scrapped. That came as a huge shock, especially with megastar Tom Cruise in the lead role, fellow A-lister Russell Crowe on board, and a talented ing cast including Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, and Marwan Kenzari. On paper, the Dark Universe looked like a guaranteed success.

Despite leaving critics and audiences underwhelmed at the time, Tom Cruise's The Mummyreboot is climbing the streaming charts. Cruise starred in the 2017 movie as a U.S. Army Sergeant who inadvertently awakens a cursed Egyptian princess and becomes the target of her search for a host for the deity Set in the hopes of claiming rulership of the world. Intended to launch an interconnected franchise known as the Dark Universe, the movie was a critical and commercial failure, losing Universal Pictures a reported $60-95 million at the box office and leading to the shelving of the franchise.

Tom Cruise has had a lot of box-office hits, but one of the actor's most impressive box-office feats was also one of his few career failures. Although Tom Cruise got his start acting in a variety of critically acclaimed films from well-known directors, the actor has spent the last few decades sticking to well-known franchises and big-budget action movies, with recent projects like Edge of Tomorrow, Jack Reacher, and the Mission: Impossible franchise giving him his modern reputation. Tom Cruise once tried to add another major action franchise to this list, with it being one of his biggest failures.

There are good franchises. Bad franchises. And then there are good franchises that get ruined by some terrible movies.

Stephen Sommers, the director of the 1999 The Mummy remake, reveals that he felt insulted by Tom Cruise’s 2017 reboot of the horror movie franchise. The original movie dates back to 1932 with the Universal Boris Karloff-led movie. The franchise received multiple reboots, including from Universal Pictures and Hammer Film Productions. Stephen Sommers brought the franchise to the modern era with three feature-length movies and, more recently, a Tom Cruise-led reboot that was meant to kick off The Dark Universe.