The Mummy Biography Flash a weekly Biography.
You are listening to The Mummy Biography Flash, I am Marcus Ellery, and yes, we are doing a breaking-news segment on a 3,000-year-old fictional corpse. My parents are very proud.
So, what has our boy The Mummy been up to in the last few days, hypothetically speaking, in this cursed media ecosystem?
First, the big one: the character just got a fresh shot of immortality thanks to all the noise around The Mummy 4. Variety and IMDb’s news desk have been busy pointing out that Universal is officially moving ahead with a new sequel headlined by Brendan Fraser, with the Radio Silence duo, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, steering the sarcophagus this time. According to coverage aggregated on IMDb’s Mummy 4 news page, the studio is treating this as a return to the 1999 style of pulp adventure and essentially pretending certain later installments were just a bad dream, which is honestly the most Egyptian-magic thing they’ve done so far.
The Business Standard’s entertainment section and similar outlets have been hyping the reunion of Fraser and Rachel Weisz, stressing that this is a full-circle moment for the franchise, and by extension for the titular undead menace those two keep accidentally waking up. That kind of nostalgic reboot talk is pure biographical gold for a fictional character: it locks The Mummy into the “classic icon being dusted off for a new generation” narrative, not just a relic of late-90s CGI.
Streaming data has also dragged the bandaged one back into the spotlight. Collider recently noted that Brendan Fraser’s 1999 The Mummy hit the top of Tubi’s movie leaderboard, while Slash Film and other outlets pointed out that the 2017 Tom Cruise version has quietly climbed into HBO Max’s Top 10 in the U.S. again. When both your beloved cult hit and your notorious flop are trending at the same time, that is not just content, that is legacy revisionism in real time.
Meanwhile, social media’s doing what it does best: bad jokes and fan casting. Film Twitter has been riffing on Guillermo del Toro’s current monster run, with folks asking when he’ll “do a horny prestige version of The Mummy” right after Frankenstein, and meme accounts keep pairing Dwayne Johnson’s recent mentions of reconnecting with Brendan Fraser with jokes about a “Scorpion King–Mummy Old Man Reunion Tour.” None of this is official, all of it feeds the aura.
So in the last few days, our fictional friend hasn’t just been shambling around; he’s been repositioned as a long-tail IP asset, a nostalgic comfort watch, and a surprisingly durable meme. For a dead guy, that is a very active biography.
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