Tom Cruise Is Not the Mummy (or Is He?) in the Trailer for The Mummy

The trailer for the 2017 reboot of The Mummy is, unsurprisingly, pretty standard franchise fare: There’s an opening action set piece, then a tiny smattering of plot, then a preview of a larger, climactic action set piece that will involve, of course, mass urban destruction. Of course, the Mummy also comes back to life, because she is the Mummy, but Tom Cruise comes back to life, too, because he is Tom Cruise. This would make some sense, given that The Mummy marks the beginning of Universal’s Marvel-style universe where movie stars are going to play creatures like Frankenstein’s monster and the Invisible Man. Will the final scene see Tom Cruise calling a press conference to say, “The truth is: I am the Mummy”?