Tom Cruise heads to Australia for The Mummy, a contemporary reboot that co-stars Russell Crowe
MOVE over, Marvel. A new monsters film series featuring Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe gets its kickstart with The Mummy. Watch the new trailer.
A TRAILER for The Mummy has lobbed along with the news that Tom Cruise is heading Down Under for a red-carpet premiere of the hotly-anticipated reboot.
Co-stars Russell Crowe, Sofia Boutella and Annabelle Wallis will also attend the Sydney State Theatre event on May 22 along with director Alex Kurtzman.
The Mummy is to be the first in a series of films set in Universal’s monster’s universe, which will interconnect the stories of familiar freaks such as the Invisible Man, Frankenstein, Count Dracula and Wolf Man for the first time.
Crowe plays Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde in the reboot, set in the present day and travelling from the sweeping sands of the Middle East through hidden labyrinths under modern-day London.
Cruise’s character, Nick Morton, dies in a plane crash only to arise again to battle Boutella’s ancient Egyptian princess after she awakens from her desert crypt hellbent on destruction.
The actor reportedly did 64 takes in zero gravity to film the crash sequence, which took two days and four high-altitude flights to execute.
“There was a lot of barfing,” Kurtzman told CinemaCon during a presentation of the trailer.
Cruise refused the option of filming the scene on a sound stage, believing it was important that audiences got the most realistic experience possible.
It’s not the actor’s first death-defying stunt. For the Mission: Impossible series, he strapped himself to the side of a plane and scaled Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
Sydney is the first international stop in a worldwide promotional tour that covers Asia, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.
Ushering in a new era of gods and monsters, T he Mummy opens in Australian cinemas on June 8.
Explosive trailer revealed for intense movie
There’s a literal explosion and a game of cat-and-mouse between a revolutionary figure and the FBI plot to take him down. And it’s also a true story.
Russell Crowe is unhinged in new trailer
Russell Crowe is not someone to be trifled with in his new psychological thriller, to be released in only a few weeks.
Trailer drops for sweeping new epic movie
Based on Tim Winton’s acclaimed novel, Dirt Music features breathtaking landscapes and, maybe controversially, an American and a Scot playing Australians.