Watch the first trailer for Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – The Mummy
The first trailer for The Mummy, Universal’s classic monster movie reboot, flew in yesterday. Tom Cruise runs, screams, and crashes through the trailer in true Cruise/Mission: Impossible fashion, and it’s hard not to paint the film in broad action/adventure strokes at first glance. For one, the movie’s director is Alex Kurtzman (of Kurtzman/Orci fame), who has a tendency to deliver enjoyable-but-wanting blockbusters as a writer/producer. Also, you just can’t mistake the how-did-he-survive-that tumbling that Cruise is famous for, and it’s on full display in the first trailer for The Mummy. I’m not sold quite yet, but we’ve definitely come a long way since the Brendan Fraser-led slapstick adventure of the late ’90s.
Whether you’re curious about the movie or simply won’t miss a new Cruise blockbuster, watch the first full-length trailer for The Mummy after the jump.
Again, Kurtzman is a perfectly acceptable genre writer, but The Mummy will be the first big budget, better succeed blockbuster that sits on his shoulders as a director. I’m hopeful, especially with the other talent involved, that this movie succeeds and jumpstarts a new wave of Universal monster movies (Kurtzman is also attached to produce The Invisible Man and write Van Helsing). The actors involved here are strong, but what struck me as a “huh, you don’t say?” revelation was seeing that the film’s writers were none other than Jon Spaihts (Prometheus, Doctor Strange) and the action legend himself Christopher McQuarrie (The Way of the Gun, Jack Reacher). That’s enough to secure my ticket, and I’m hoping this team hits it out of the park.
Here’s a lengthy official plot synopsis for The Mummy that’s as much a press release as it is a synopsis:
Tom Cruise headlines a spectacular, all-new cinematic version of the legend that has fascinated cultures all over the world since the dawn of civilization: The Mummy. Thought safely entombed in a tomb deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess (Sofia Boutella of Kingsman: The Secret Service and Star Trek Beyond) whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension. From the sweeping sands of the Middle East through hidden labyrinths under modern-day London, The Mummy brings a surprising intensity and balance of wonder and thrills in an imaginative new take that ushers in a new world of gods and monsters. Cruise is joined by a cast including Annabelle Wallis (upcoming King Arthur, television’s Peaky Blinders), Jake Johnson (Jurassic World), Courtney B. Vance (TV’s American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson) and Oscar® winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator). The creative team on this action-adventure event is led by director/producer Alex Kurtzman and producer Chris Morgan, who have been instrumental in growing some of the most successful franchises of the past several years—with Kurtzman writing or producing entries in the Transformers, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible series, and Morgan being the narrative engineer of the Fast & Furious saga as it has experienced explosive growth from its third chapter on. Sean Daniel, who produced the most recent Mummy trilogy, produces alongside Kurtzman and Morgan.
The Mummy hits theaters on June 9, 2017.
