American actor Brendan Fraser, who played the main role in the fantastic saga “The Mummy” between 1999 and 2008, believes he knows why the reboot worn by Tom Cruise was a failure.
In 1999, Brendan Fraser became world famous as the adventurer Rick O’Connell in the fantasy film The Mummy. The actor will return to this role twice, for The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, but will not be part of the adventure of the reboot released in 2017, with Tom Cruise as headliner .
The film The Mummy led by Tom Cruise proved to be a bitter failure, with only 80 million dollars in box office receipts in the United States, against 155 and 202 million for the first two parts of the franchise. In an interview granted to the Variety siteBrendan Fraser thinks he knows why this version didn’t work.
“It’s hard to make this kind of film”says Fraser. “The ingredient we had in making our Mummy, which I didn’t see in this reboot, was fun. That’s what was missing in this incarnation. It was a horror movie that was too frontal . The Mummy should be a thrilling trip, but not scary or scary. I know how hard it is to find the right tone. I tried to do it three times.”
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Brendan Fraser would he be ready to find his character of Rick O’Connell for a new opus of The Mummy? “I don’t know how it could work”says the 53-year-old comedian. “But I would be open to that possibility if someone came up with the right idea.”
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The trailer for “The Mummy” with Brendan Fraser: