The Mummy is being marketed as a reboot of the trilogy “The Mummy” (1999), “The Mummy Returns” (2001) and “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” (2008) starring Brendan Fraser. At the same time, the reboot of The Mummy is also part of Universal's strategy to dust off all the old iconic monster films from the 1920s to 1950s, i.e. Frankenstein's Creation, The Invisible Man, Dracula, the Wolf Man and also the film The Mummy with Boris Karloff from the Year 1932. Universal Studios is even planning to create a connected universe out of remakes of their horror classics, just as Marvel did for superheroes with “Marvel’s The Avengers”. However, since the horror genre was perceived as too restrictive, the remakes should see the light of day as action-adventures. Two directors – Len Wiseman (Total Recall) and Andrés Muschietti (Mama) – turned their backs on the project before screenwriter Alex Kurtzman (Time to Live) was found to ultimately direct The Mummy.
Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) is there when a mysterious sarcophagus is recovered from the desert in the Middle East. It houses the mummy of Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), who was buried under the mass of sand centuries ago - with no intention of ever opening her tomb again. By being liberated from their grave, however, people unleash a power that they are not up to. Ahmanet awakens to new life and unleashes all her destructiveness, whereby her malice and thoughts of revenge lead her to London. Dr. Henry Jekyll (Russell Crowe) then prophesies Nick and his colleagues (including Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson) a new world of gods and monsters.