Universal hires Wiseman to helm 'The Mummy' reboot

Back in May, I noted that Universal had brought in writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to help them reboot their properties of The Mummy and Van Helsing. While 1999’s remake of The Mummy that was helmed by Stephen Sommers -perhaps his only film worth seeing- it’s subsequent sequels, however, never lived up to the first film. Now the studio –in what seems to indicate they’ve entered into a new phase of production: the assembly line movie making- have hired Len Wiseman to helm The Mummy reboot. The hiring of Wiseman, who directed this summer’s huge bomb of a remake that was Total Recall and unleashed the (not in a good way) cheesetastic Underworld series, also highlights most studios inability these days to do anything original – that the only way they believe staying fresh is redoing their own movie catalog because it’s cheaper than finding talented new media. Despite the promise that this remake will be darker, I’m confident that no matter what Jon Spaihts writes, we’ll end up with a film that hits every color point on the paint-by-number velvet canvas.