- Actors: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance
- Director: Alex Kurtzman
- Writers: David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, Dylan Kussman
- Producers: Alex Kurtzman, Chris Morgan, Sean Daniel, Sarah Bradshaw
- Format: NTSC, Subtitled
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (DTS 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (DTS 5.1)
- Subtitles: French, Spanish
- Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
- Region: Region A/1
- Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Release Date: September 12, 2017
- Digital Copy Expiration Date: May 2, 2018
Despite the
horrible response by audiences and critics alike, I didn’t think The Mummy was a complete trainwreck.
There was much about it that didn’t work, and very little that was as
successful as it needed to be, but the biggest problem with the film is its
inability to carry the weight of the cinematic universe that is meant to
follow. As a standalone film, audiences probably would have dismissed The Mummy
as an inconsequential summer film, without the high level of scrutiny it
received as the first entry into the Dark Universe franchise. And this seems to
be a trend, as each effort made by Universal to revive their once thriving
cinematic horror department to the quality of the past has met similar failure.
We saw it with Dracula Untold (2014)
as well as The Wolfman (2010), and
now The Mummy’s failure is likely
giving the studio pause about their plans to revive countless other iconic
monsters.
