But then The Mummy tanked with critics and with audiences and Universal abandoned the Dark Universe as quickly as they launched it.
But Kurtzman says nothing prepared him for directing like actually directing (although Kurtzman had directed a feature before The Mummy; 2012’s People Like Us.)
Speaking with The Playlist, The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman now calls the experience of The Mummy “probably the biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally.”
Sometimes, a reboot of a movie turns out to be an improvement on the one before it.