This week, we venture into the Dark Universe — but not for long — in Alex Kurtzman’s 2017 reboot The Mummy. Is it broken at a conceptual level? How much do we miss Brendan Fraser? Does Elizabeth come up with the best ever Trailer Game joke?

Unanswered Questions:

• Is the Dark Universe, narratively, a coherent shared universe?
• Is there a feminist reading of Ancient Egypt presented in this film?
• Does Tom Cruise unbalance the film, or does he save it from being an even greater disaster?

Further reading:

• The Mummy! A Tale Of The Twenty-Second Century (Jane Webb)
• The Mummy (1932)
• Universal Monsters
• The Mummy, Or Ramses The Damned (Anne Rice)
• The Mummy (1999)
• The Mummy Returns (2001)
• Atomic Blonde (2017)
• Drunk History
• Drinking Buddies (2013)
• Mythic Quest
• Minx
• The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
• The Mummy IMAX Trailer
• The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
• The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule

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Join us next week as we round out Cruise’s penultimate, experimental trilogy with Doug Liman’s 2017 action-comedy American Made!

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