The Last Star In Hollywood

This week, we venture into the Dark Universe — but not for long — in Alex Kurtzman’s 2017 reboot The Mummy. Is it broken at a conceptual level? How much do we miss Brendan Fraser? Does Elizabeth come up with the best ever Trailer Game joke?

Unanswered Questions:

• Is the Dark Universe, narratively, a coherent shared universe?



• Is there a feminist reading of Ancient Egypt presented in this film?



• Does Tom Cruise unbalance the film, or does he save it from being an even greater disaster?

Further reading:

• The Mummy! A Tale Of The Twenty-Second Century (Jane Webb)



• The Mummy (1932)



• Universal Monsters



• The Mummy, Or Ramses The Damned (Anne Rice)



• The Mummy (1999)



• The Mummy Returns (2001)



• Atomic Blonde (2017)



• Drunk History



• Drinking Buddies (2013)



• Mythic Quest



• Minx



• The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)



• The Mummy IMAX Trailer



• The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films



• The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule

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Join us next week as we round out Cruise’s penultimate, experimental trilogy with Doug Liman’s 2017 action-comedy American Made!

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