Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it’s understood that the new Mummy is set in the present and is not a horror play but rather an action-adventure tentpole with horror elements. It also will feature new characters and not rehash previous incarnations.
So, like the last Mummy reboot, only set in the modern age. Instead of some neat period -iece action, we'll get snarky, post-modern humor and reasons why the Mummy can jam cellphones...or something like that. Well, at least we'll have lots of explosions! Yay! It doesn't help that, along with long-time writing partner Roberto Orci, Kurtzman has penned some the most mediocre big-budget films of the last decade. A couple of the Transformers movies...the terrible Star Trek: Into Darkness...The Island (gak)...just one loud, boring, brainless film after another.
I don't expect Shakespeare for a monster movie; but this promises to be even worse than the sequels to Stephen Sommers 1999 film (the '99 film was pretty good).
The one thing that might be cool is that Universal is going to relaunch all of its classic monsters in a shared universe. They did this the first time around in the '40s, which resulted in some genuinely entertaining films. Let's just see if Kurtzman can direct a less generic movie than he writes.
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