Descriptions of The Mummy’s set provided by individual crew members have been described as “before Tom” and “after Tom,” citing the possibility that the crew simply went along with the Hollywood legend’s decision to micromanage once he arrived at the production.
New rumors associated with The Mummy have begun to shed some light into how the film may have potentially struggled behind the scenes during its development.
Specifically, these reports suggest that Tom Cruise had the film significantly altered to place considerably more emphasis on his character, Nick Morton, as the hero of the story.
Earlier versions of the film apparently carved out an equal amount of screen time to Cruise and Sofia Boutella, but Cruise may have convinced the studio to create a much clearer sense of who the movie actually belonged to in the final cut.