Brendan Fraser weighs in on why Tom Cruise’s The Mummy reboot flopped

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Brendan Fraser has explained why he thinks Tom Cruise’s 2017 The Mummy reboot flopped. The 53-year-old actor, who played the role of Rick O’Connell in the original film The Mummy and its two sequels, said that Cruise’s reboot of the film “was too much of a straight-ahead horror”. I tried to do it three times.” Speaking of whether he would ever consider returning to The Mummy franchise, Fraser said: “I don’t know how it would work. “But I’d be open to it if someone came up with the right conceit.” Actor Brendan Fraser talks on stage at The Help Group's 26th Annual "Teddy Bear Picnic" charity luncheon to benefit children challenged by autism and other learning disabilities which honored producer Jerry Weintraub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on June 5, 2003 in Los Angeles, California.