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Russell Crowe i ‘The Mummy’ reboot

Universal har gang i at lancere deres egen cinematic univers. Den første film i rækken var ‘Dracula Untold’ fra 2014 og den næste bliver ‘The Mummy’ reboot med Tom Cruise i hoverdrollen. Russell Crowe er nu tilføjet til rollelisten i ‘The Mummy’ som Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. I et interview med filmagasinet Collider sagde Crowe følgende:

“I’m gonna play Dr. Henry Jekyll, Fellow of the Royal Society. It’s very interesting, what they’re gonna do with that stuff. I’ve had a couple of chats about it with the director (Alex Kurtzman). I’ve known Tom Cruise since 1992, or something like that. When he was married to an Australian, I was really good friends with him. But when he got divorced, I was part of the settlement package, and I went to Nicole [Kidman]” 

Russell fortalte yderligere om hans tiltro til instruktør Alex Kurtzman og lidt om hvor uhyggeligt ‘The Mummy’ bliver:

“He really understands the world and he’s been around a long time, on a lot of big projects. He knows how to get something from an idea on the page onto a soundstage and into a camera. Sure, I would imagine he’s scared shitless right about now, and having a hard time sleeping because he’s got ten million things on his mind right now. But when we started talking about this idea, there were a few things I put up in the air and he picked up on them. Those kinds of creative collaborative conversations, if they’re explosive like that from the first time you start talking, and somebody says something that goes off in your mind and that bumps up something that you say and that other person bounces off of that, you’re actually in a really good place. How they’ve pulled all of this stuff forward into a contemporary world and how they’re building it out from there, and how all of the different character interweave into each other’s stories, it’s fantastic.” 

Universals cinematic universe kommer til at se således ud:

Dracula Untold (2014) 

The Mummy (2017) 

Wolf Man film (2018) 

Van Helsing film (dato ukendt) 

Creature from the Black Lagoon film (dato ukendt) 

Bride of Frankenstein film (dato ukendt) 

Invisible Man film (dato ukendt)  

‘The Mummy’ reboot har dansk premiere den 8. juni 2017.