Episode Thirty-One - The Mummy (2017)
Failure to Franchise
English - October 26, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBFilm History TV & Film Film Reviews hollywood boxoffice f2fpod failure film filmcriticism franchise franchises moviefranchises moviereviews Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Which is ultimately more dangerous - a mummy's curse, or the ego-driven demands of a movie star? Well, one of the two is at least partly responsible for the sinking of not just this episode's movie, but arguably the entire cinematic universe it was meant to kick off. That's right, our two-month "Curse of the Dark Universe" event concludes with the movie that inspired it all - Universal's recent attempt to launch a brand new series of connected franchises starring the classic Universal Monsters. And the film they chose to kick-start it all (after the failure of DRACULA UNTOLD, that is) was the Tom Cruise-starring reboot of THE MUMMY. Cursed, or just misguided? We certainly have our thoughts.