What Exactly Happened To Tom Cruise’s Nick Morton In The Mummy?

Needless to say, a lot went wrong with «The Mummy» and Universal’s plans to establish the Dark Universe on the big screen, preventing any interested parties from seeing Nick Morton’s (Tom Cruise) story continue. While the studio clearly bit off more than it could chew, Brendan Fraser, star of the original «The Mummy,» believes Universal’s approach to the Cruise-led reboot was all wrong from the beginning.

«It is hard to make that movie,» he told Variety. «The ingredient that we had going for our ‘Mummy,’ which I didn’t see in that film, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie. ‘The Mummy’ should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary.»

Similarly, Alex Kurtzman, director of the 2017 movie, also recognizes the mistakes he and the production made in their attempt to establish the Dark Universe, calling it «the biggest failure of his life» during an appearance on «Bingeworthy.» While he’s thankful for the opportunity to direct the film, he regrets several decisions, like not trusting a gut feeling he had where something didn’t feel right while making «The Mummy.» Although the director can’t quite place what was wrong, many reviews, like Fraser’s and Variety’s, pointed out the lack of fun in the movie, which, if correctly implemented, could have played a significant factor in the Dark Universe’s fate.