Tom Cruise has spent most of his career making the impossible look ridiculously easy, whether that’s hanging off airplanes, jumping motorcycles off cliffs, or somehow finding increasingly dangerous ways to save the world as Ethan Hunt. But even Hollywood’s most committed action star has the occasional misfire. Nearly a decade later, however, it’s getting another opportunity to find its audience.
The Mummy has returned to Netflix’s Top 10 movie rankings, bringing Cruise’s much-maligned fantasy adventure back into the streaming spotlight. The 2017 release earned approximately $410 million worldwide, a respectable-sounding figure that wasn’t enough to make the movie the franchise-launching success Universal had envisioned. Intended to launch an entire cinematic universe of classic monsters, the movie instead became a rather expensive reminder that audiences aren’t always interested in another big-budget IP.
Thought safely entombed in a tomb deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia and terrors that defy human comprehension. The movie takes us on a globe-trotting adventure from the sweeping sands of the Middle East through hidden labyrinths under modern-day London, in a new world of gods and monsters.
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Collider Survival Assessment Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? 8 questions · 5 worlds · one honest verdict
Five of the great screen futures, and not one of them is built for comfort. Answer eight questions about instinct, loyalty and the line you would cross, and the scan will tell you which one you would still be standing in. Worlds in range
▦︎The Matrix
◈︎Mad Max
◑︎Blade Runner
▲︎Dune
✦︎Star Wars
Question 01 of 08INSTINCT
The world as you know it ends overnight. What is your first move? No wrong answer. There is a wrong hesitation.
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Question 02 of 08RESOURCE
You can stockpile exactly one thing. What is it? Choose carefully. You are not getting a second run.
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Question 03 of 08THREAT
Which kind of enemy scares you the most? Be honest about what keeps you up.
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Question 04 of 08AUTHORITY
How do you handle the people in charge? Every world has them. Even the ones that pretend otherwise.
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Question 05 of 08ENVIRONMENT
Pick the place you would rather wake up in: You will be there a while.
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Who do you want standing next to you? Pick one. You only get one.
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Question 07 of 08MORALITY
Which line would you cross to survive? Everybody crosses one.
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Question 08 of 08PURPOSE
What are you really fighting for? Last question. Make it count.
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▦︎ The Matrix The Resistance, Zion You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You would survive The Matrix because you were never fully sold on the version of reality you were handed. You notice the seams. You ask the second question. In a world built to keep people comfortable and incurious, that instinct is the whole fight, and it is why Morpheus would have found you long before you found him. From the Collider file
The Wachowskis’ 1999 film won four Academy Awards, including Visual Effects and Film
Editing.
Bullet time was shot with a rig of roughly 120 still cameras firing in sequence around the
actors.
Keanu Reeves trained in martial arts for about four months before a frame was shot,
recovering from neck surgery the whole time.
It opened the same year as Fight Club and eXistenZ, in a run of films about not trusting the
world in front of you.
Red pill energy Pattern spotter Built to question
◈︎ Mad Max The Wasteland Oh, what a day. What a lovely day.
You would survive the Wasteland because you do not waste energy mourning the world that ended. You move, you improvise, and you are very good with whatever is bolted to the thing in front of you. Furiosa would let you drive. That is not a compliment anybody earns easily. From the Collider file
Mad Max: Fury Road won six Academy Awards in 2016, more than any other film that year.
George Miller storyboarded the entire film as roughly 3,500 panels before there was a
script.
The chase was shot almost entirely practical in the Namib Desert, with real vehicles and
real stunt performers.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth carried the prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in 2024.
Keeps moving Improviser Good with engines
◑︎ Blade Runner Los Angeles, 2049 All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
You would survive 2049 because you know how to be small in a very loud city. You keep your head down, you do the job, and you hold onto one private thing that belongs only to you. That quiet stubbornness is exactly what both Deckard and K run on, and it is what keeps either of them going when the case stops making sense. From the Collider file
Blade Runner 2049 won Roger Deakins his first Oscar for cinematography, on his fourteenth
nomination.
The film also took Best Visual Effects, 35 years after Ridley Scott’s 1982 original.
Villeneuve shot it on large-format film and kept the fog and rain practical on set wherever
he could.
Three short films by Luke Scott and Shinichiro Watanabe bridge the 30-year gap between the
two movies.
Keeps her head down Private Noir soul
▲︎ Dune Arrakis Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
You would survive Arrakis because you think in decades while everyone around you thinks in weeks. You read the room, you learn the customs, you wait. The desert does not reward speed. It rewards people who understand that patience is a weapon, which is the one lesson the Fremen never had to be taught. From the Collider file
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune won six Academy Awards in 2022, including Cinematography and
Original Score.
Hans Zimmer turned down Christopher Nolan’s Tenet so he could score Dune instead.
Dune: Part Two arrived in 2024 and brought in Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and Christopher
Walken.
David Lynch’s 1984 version and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unmade one are both their
own legends by now.
Plays the long game Reads the room Patient
✦︎ Star Wars A Galaxy Far, Far Away Rebellions are built on hope.
You would survive the galaxy because you never try to survive it alone. You collect people. You end up in the middle of other folks’ problems and you stay anyway. Every version of this story, from the Falcon’s crew to the Ghost’s, runs on somebody exactly like that holding the group together. From the Collider file
The 1977 original won six Academy Awards plus a special achievement award for sound effects.
John Williams’ score was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and became the
best-selling symphonic film soundtrack ever.
Andor took the galaxy somewhere colder and earned Emmy nominations for drama series in both
seasons.
The saga now runs across eleven feature films and a growing shelf of series on Disney+.
Collects people Shows up Hope merchant
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Who Stars in ‘The Mummy’?
The movie stars Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible) as Nick Morton, Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service) as Princess Ahmanet, Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders) as Jenny Halsey, Russell Crowe (Gladiator) as Dr. Henry Jekyll, Jake Johnson (New Girl) as Chris Vail, Courtney B. Vance (The People v. O. J. Simpson) as Colonel Greenway, and Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin) as Malik.
Crowe’s Dr. Jekyll was intended to help connect the movie to a wider world of supernatural creatures, with Universal announcing plans for future installments involving characters such as Frankenstein’s Monster and the Invisible Man. Yes, they also planned to bring in the likes of Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp for a new Dark Universe.
Despite Cruise’s star power and a big marketing push (remember that awkward cast promo image with him, Bardem, Depp, and Crowe?), the film bombed critically and commercially, earning dreadful reviews and losing an estimated $100 million for Universal. The entire Dark Universe crumbled before a second movie could even shoot.
The Mummy is reportedly back in Netflix’s movie Top 10. Streaming availability varies by country. Stay tuned to Collider for all the latest news and updates on the biggest and best movies and shows heading to your favorite streaming platforms soon.
Release Date
June 9, 2017
Runtime
110 minutes
Director
Alex Kurtzman
Writers
Christopher McQuarrie, David Koepp, Dylan Kussman
Producers
Chris Morgan, Sarah Bradshaw, Sean Daniel, Alex Kurtzman
