Watch Tom Cruise And Russell Crowe In First Trailer For THE MUMMY

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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.

Welcome to a New World of Gods and Monsters. The new trailer for Universal Pictures’ THE MUMMY has just debuted online.

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).

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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 film is written by Jon Spaihts and Christopher McQuarrie.

THE MUMMY opens in theaters June 9, 2017.

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Ridley Scott attached to return for ‘Alien’ Prequel

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20th Century Fox is double-dipping again with plans to revive the ALIEN franchise with a prequel to the first film. The studio has brought on Jon Spaihts to write the script and Ridley Scott has apparently been drawn back into the mix to direct the film, which is written as a prequel to the original 1979 film.

It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them. — Variety

The project, which was pitched to the studio as well as to Scott Free Production by Spaihts, is a welcome project for the studio as it seems they’ve been itching to find a way to resurrect the popular series of films. Hopefully, the film will return to the elements that made the original film so great and not pander to the same typical studio mistakes that ruined the AVP films.

Source: Variety