As the monarch roars back to life, our heroes find his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. But when dashing adventurer Alex OвЂ™Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) to spend eternity in suspended animation, ChinaвЂ™s ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. And this time, the OвЂ™Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (newcomer Luke Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick OвЂ™Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas.

In that sense, both the trailer and Kurtzman are clear: The Mummy is intended to be a globe-trotting adventure film, and while there will be scares and moments where the Mummy takes center stage, this film is designed as a big-budget blockbuster with all of the elements youвЂ™d expect.The blockbuster global Mummy franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. This is an expanded universe based upon monster movies, after all, and it could conceivably swing from straight horror to the more tongue-in-cheek takes seen in the Brendan Fraser series. (In the original Universal films, characters like Frankenstein and the Wolf Man ended up teaming up in various ways, before things took a more comedic bent in movies like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.)Д«ut with the attempted launch of any new series, one of the biggest questions can be the matter of tone. Hyde fame - who is part of a mysterious group called Prodigium that seems to be focused on discovering various monsters in what will no doubt lead to eventual match-ups. Given that though, the hooks and larger ambitions are clear. ItвЂ™s not so much вЂbuild a universe,вЂ™ as it is вЂmake a great Mummy movie.вЂ™вЂќ вЂњSo that has been the goal in making The Mummy. вЂњWhether it was by default, or because they did it intentionally, they knew that the audience needed to fall in love with each individual character first, and if they did that, then a world would present itself,вЂќ he said.

has done with its handling of the DC world - doesnвЂ™t give audiences anything to latch onto or feel invested in, something that Kurtzman said UniversalвЂ™s original films understand at a fundamental level. And if you do that, then the audience will follow you.вЂќ Simply jumping into an Avengers-style team-up - as some have argued that Warner Bros. вЂњYou have to make great individual movies, first and foremost,вЂќ Kurtzman said.

вЂњYou have to make great individual movies, first and foremost.вЂќ But in a briefing with journalists last week, Kurtzman emphasized that putting a universe ahead of any given character or film was a surefire way to fail. Kurtzman has been masterminding the new вЂњUniversal MonstersвЂќ universe alongside Fast and the Furious architect Chris Morgan, with films about characters like The Invisible Man, the Wolf Man, and vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing in various stages of development. Star Trek BeyondвЂ™s Sofia Boutella stars as the titular Mummy herself. Starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman - best known as the writer of movies like Star Trek Into Darkness and Transformers - the new Mummy looks to be as much an action film as anything else, with Cruise stuck in a death-defying sequence right at the top, and facing various moments of peril and adventure throughout the clip. Marvel may have kicked off the current expanded cinematic universe craze, but the concept arguably started back with the classic Universal Pictures horror films - and the studio is hoping that the first trailer for The Mummy will be the beginning of a new run of interconnected movies.

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