Universal to re-reboot The Mummy
Like many a movie studio adventurer in an age when “adventuring” is not a risk-averse strategy, Universal has been creeping through the tombs of its library, digging out reboots for musty old properties like Frankenstein and The Wolfman regardless of how recently they already did that. So it was only a matter of time before they re-unearthed The Mummy—Stephen Sommers’ loose 1999 remake of 1932’s original Mummy movie—which spawned its own still-running series of sequels and Scorpion King spinoffs, and is now being wrapped up in yet another fresh layer of reboot gauze by Prometheus co-writer Jon Spaihts.