I won’t tell you too much more than that, other than to say: One of the things that I think has defined Tom Cruise movies, for 30 years, is that Tom Cruise always saves the day.
You know whenever you’re in a Tom Cruise movie that he’s gonna figure out a way to save the day. And that’s great, and it’s why I pay my money to see his movies.
The first thing I said to Tom was, ‘It’ll be scarier if we can take away the fundamental knowledge that you’re gonna solve the problem.’”
The studio is instead pooling together its many classic monster movie properties to form the shared Monster franchise, starting in 2017 with The Mummy: a reboot of the Mummy movie series that stars Tom Cruise as an ordinary human who crosses paths with Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), an ancient princess awoken from her deathly slumber with newfound supernatural powers… and a whole lot of wrath, too.