Looking back on the last decades or so of blockbusters, few disasters stand out quite like 2017's The Mummy. The film was made to help usher in a new, special era for Universal's Classic Monsters (with plans to build an MCU-esque continuity called The Dark Universe), and it was loaded with the extreme star power of Tom Cruise... but critics hated it, and it was ultimately judged a box office bomb.
So what went wrong? Many have contributed thoughts to the discourse, and that now includes Brendan Fraser – who memorably starred in the Mummy trilogy from 1999 to 2008. The actor was a part of a recent Mummy-centric panel at Fan Expo Denver, and according to Collider, he was asked for his thoughts on what went wrong with the Tom Cruise movie during the event. At first he demurred, saying that he didn't really have an answer and acknowledging that it's easy for any blockbuster to end up being a dud because the whole process is so difficult. Said Fraser,
