How Tom Cruise's The Mummy will launch a Marvel-like reboot of the Universal Monsters

In the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, every studio wants a behemoth self-referential franchise to call its own. Last night, we got a look at Universal’s effort: a reboot of the classic Universal Monsters films, beginning with The Mummy. The lurching bandaged corpse of the past has been replaced with Tom Cruise, an ancient female mummy bent on global destruction, and an extravagant special effects budget.
Universal is serious about this franchise push, going so far as to lay groundwo