{"id":9851,"date":"2016-12-05T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/tom-cruise-faces-an-ancient-evil-in-first-the-mummy-trailer\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T08:25:00","slug":"tom-cruise-faces-an-ancient-evil-in-first-the-mummy-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/tom-cruise-faces-an-ancient-evil-in-first-the-mummy-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Faces an Ancient Evil In First &#039;The Mummy&#039; Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-mummy-trailer-2017\/21742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\">Peter Hall<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-mummy-trailer-2017\/21742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"The Mummy 2017\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201612\/the-mummy-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>When most people think of <strong><em>The Mummy<\/em><\/strong>, they likely think of the tongue-in-cheek, Brendan Fraiser-starring reboot from the late &#8217;90s that was less a horror movie and more of a family adventure that went for laughs instead of scares. But when <em>The Mummy<\/em> first emerged back in 1932 it was unmistakably a horror movie about a young woman stalked by the reanimated corpse of an ancient Egyptian prince. <\/p>\n<p>So when a reboot of <em>The Mummy<\/em> hits theaters on June 9, 2017, it&#8217;s already got the difficult task of bridging the expectations of those who want an adventure movie and those who want a fantasy-filled horror movie. Thankfully the team behind it seems up to the task. For starters, it&#8217;s got a screenplay from <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> and <em>Passengers<\/em> writer <strong>Jon Spaihts<\/strong> and is directed by <em>Star Trek<\/em> writer-producer <strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong>. And that&#8217;s just behind-the-camera.<\/p>\n<p>In front of it we&#8217;ve got <strong>Tom Cruise<\/strong>, <strong>Annabelle Wallis<\/strong> and <strong>Sofia Boutella<\/strong>, who just killed it in <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, as the titular mummy. And as if that wasn&#8217;t enough, we&#8217;re also getting <strong>Russell Crowe<\/strong> thrown in as a one Doctor Jekyll, which should be an interesting piece of a larger Universal monster movie puzzle that is expected to bring in the Wolfman, the Invisible Man, the Bride of Frankenstein and maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full trailer for <em>The Mummy<\/em>. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201612\/mummy_xlg.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mummy<\/em> hits theaters on June 9, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-mummy-trailer-2017\/21742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tom Cruise Faces an Ancient Evil In First &#039;The Mummy&#039; Trailer\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-mummy-trailer-2017\/21742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movies.com\/movie-news\/the-mummy-trailer-2017\/21742?wssac=164&amp;wssaffid=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"The Mummy 2017\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201612\/the-mummy-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>When most people think of <strong><em>The Mummy<\/em><\/strong>, they likely think of the tongue-in-cheek, Brendan Fraiser-starring reboot from the late &#8217;90s that was less a horror movie and more of a family adventure that went for laughs instead of scares. But when <em>The Mummy<\/em> first emerged back in 1932 it was unmistakably a horror movie about a young woman stalked by the reanimated corpse of an ancient Egyptian prince. <\/p>\n<p>So when a reboot of <em>The Mummy<\/em> hits theaters on June 9, 2017, it&#8217;s already got the difficult task of bridging the expectations of those who want an adventure movie and those who want a fantasy-filled horror movie. Thankfully the team behind it seems up to the task. For starters, it&#8217;s got a screenplay from <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> and <em>Passengers<\/em> writer <strong>Jon Spaihts<\/strong> and is directed by <em>Star Trek<\/em> writer-producer <strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong>. And that&#8217;s just behind-the-camera.<\/p>\n<p>In front of it we&#8217;ve got <strong>Tom Cruise<\/strong>, <strong>Annabelle Wallis<\/strong> and <strong>Sofia Boutella<\/strong>, who just killed it in <em>Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, as the titular mummy. And as if that wasn&#8217;t enough, we&#8217;re also getting <strong>Russell Crowe<\/strong> thrown in as a one Doctor Jekyll, which should be an interesting piece of a larger Universal monster movie puzzle that is expected to bring in the Wolfman, the Invisible Man, the Bride of Frankenstein and maybe more.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full trailer for <em>The Mummy<\/em>. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.fandango.com\/\/mdcsite\/images\/featured\/201612\/mummy_xlg.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mummy<\/em> hits theaters on June 9, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}