'The Mummy' Trailer Previewed at CinemaCon, to Air Sunday During 'The Walking Dead'
A new trailer for "The Mummy" was revealed at CinemaCon recently, but it looks like the rest of the world is going to have to wait until Sunday to feast their eyes upon it.
According to Comicbookmovie, there has been talk of the trailer officially debuting on television during the season 7 finale of "The Walking Dead" on Sunday. The clip starts out with a bang with explosions taking place and Tom Cruise running away from them. One explosion, however, unearths an Egyptian ruin that was buried underground.
The first trailer, which was released in December 2016, saw Cruise's corpse coming back to life while at a morgue. And in the new trailer, Russell Crowe's Dr. Jekyll tells Cruise that he was brought back to life because "you were chosen" (via The Hollywood Reporter).
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Sofia Boutella, who plays the the mummy, also revealed at CinemaCon that her character used to be a princess before she became the titular monster. She was supposed to become Pharaoh but was not granted her destiny.
At the same event, director Alex Kurtzman also shared that the zero gravity plane scene that was shown in the first trailer took 64 takes and two days to accomplish. Cruise did his own stunts, which is something that the actor is well-known for. "Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol" saw Cruise hanging from the Burj Khalifa, while "Rogue Nation" left him holding on to a plane as it took off.
Cruise's committment to performing his own stunts even influenced his co-stars to do the same. Jake Johnson, who also appears in the film, said as much at CinemaCon. "We jump off buildings ... and Tom really does it all," he shared (via Variety).
And while majority of the crew members threw up during the zero gravity scene, Cruise and his leading lady, Annabelle Wallis, were able to withstand it all.
"The Mummy" premieres on June 9.
