More on The Mummy Reboot

Deadline New York have reported that Universal Pictures have set as the new director of this.... as Len Wiseman who has just done the new Total Recall that looks from the trailer very much done in the style of a video game with the 360 shots and the CGI Special Effects.

He'll be making the film from the Jon Spaihts and Universal are thinking of a summer 2014 release...fingers crossed that this can actually happen.

This is going to be produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci who are doing the pilot for FOX's adaption from film to TV "Sleepy Hollow", according to Deadline New York when they interview him saying that:

"When I first heard Universal was relaunching this, that is the image that popped into my head, the period tale, the old monster, but when Bob and Alex pitched it, there was a great new take and approach, and a very different mummy".

 The monster that Len Wiseman is talking about is the one that

Alex Kurtzman even told Deadliine that the new script that Jon Spahts has written puts the mummy into a new, modern day context.

Orci and Kurtzman are going to produce this through their Universal Pictures based banner of Paper Products, along with Sean Daniels and Jim Jacks who produced the original Steven Sommers version of the "The Mummy". 

After seeing and being a fan of these Steven Sommers movies I'm not really convinced how you can make a new approach to the mummy...but as I am also a massive fan of "The Underworld" films that were directed by Len Wiseman I'm a thinking that this mummy character might get an new revamp darker look just like the age old folktale of vampires and werewolves that has now been totally taken over now by "Twilight", making really good films like |"Underworld" and "Blade" have to take a bit of a back seat...unfortunatly.

But according to Len Wiseman it sounds like it wasn't him that is going to be making this film have a darker tone to it like the original it was more Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, with Len Wiseman saying that:

"One of the things that interested me with this mummy is, he's still in essence a man...They haven't turned his brain into a monster brain . He still has a personality and is very cunning and calculating.He's a true character in any form, and in creature, even if he is that staggering creature, it becomes more important that he's a thinking, calculating person".

But although this sounds like it will have a very different tone to it Alex Kurtzman still says that it'll still stay attractive to the same audience as the original with him saying to Deadline that:

"We're reaching into the deep roots of "The Mummy", which at it's beating heart is a horror movie and then an action movie, and putting it into  a context that is real and emotional...It's still a four quadrant film but as a lot of  recent movies have proven, audiences are hungry for more than they used to be. You can still have a family movie, an action movie that's more grounded than these used to be."

From these little snippets from Deadline's interview with Len Wiseman, Roberto Oric and Alex Kurtzaman there is a lot that is suggested about this new take on "The Mummy" but Alex Kurtzman did nearly slip up on what this take would be, saying that:

" Without saying too much , we've drawn a lot of inspiration from Michael Crichton's books, and how he ground fantastical tales in modern-day science".