6:12 pm - 04/04/2012
Universal Pictures is planning a reboot of its succesful The Mummy franchise. Variety reports that the studio has set Prometheus screenwriter Jon Spaihts on the project.
"I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with 'Prometheus,'" Spaihts tells the outlet. "To go back to a franchise's roots in dark, scary source material, and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven't seen before."
Source
But why?
"The Mummy" being rebooted
Universal Pictures is planning a reboot of its succesful The Mummy franchise. Variety reports that the studio has set Prometheus screenwriter Jon Spaihts on the project.
"I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with 'Prometheus,'" Spaihts tells the outlet. "To go back to a franchise's roots in dark, scary source material, and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven't seen before."
Source
But why?
Edited at 2012-04-05 09:41 pm (UTC)
I find it difficult to believe that the current crop of screenwriters in Hwood is SO terrible that producers are reduced to rebooting films that are 10 years old
They don't even want to take the slightest risk, so instead of greenlighting a really great idea that might be off the beaten path, they just rehash the same shitty chick flick formula, the same shitty action flick formula, and, sometimes, the same fucking movie, but with different actors. Remember that even someone like Nolan had issues when he wanted to make Inception because it wasn't ~exactly the same as everything else~.
Edited at 2012-04-04 11:47 pm (UTC)
I was obsessed with this movie when I was 11. Ughhh.
Oh the days of VHS.
Even the ~ancient egyptian
I was obsessed too :)
Still in my top five tbh
i still like to save it for a rainy day once in a while
Also, Brendan Fraser used to be so gd hot.
Forever scarred.
Edited at 2012-04-04 10:39 pm (UTC)
these movies are sacred to me