And while Kurtzman hasn’t directed a movie in Hollywood since, he’s reinvented himself as a premier talent in TV, basically becoming the godfather of all things “ Star Trek” on Paramount+. The main reason, according to many reports: leading man Tom Cruise and his constant meddling with every aspect of the film’s production doomed the project. A shame, too, since a modern update to all of the Univeral Monsters had so much potential.įive years on, though, it’s clearer why the movie was such a failure. Not a great way to kick off a new cinematic universe. Critics reviled the film, audiences chose to keep going to “ Wonder Woman” and the latest “ Pirates Of The Caribbean” movie instead, and the film tanked at the box office. When it comes to recent Hollywood franchise failures, there’s none worse than Universal‘s short-lived Dark Universe and the film that sank it, Alex Kurtzman‘s 2017 film, “ The Mummy.” And what a disaster that movie was.
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