There was a lot in environment around them that you couldn’t tell was CG, and that’s because where your eye goes is to the real people in the frame. There were limitations for what we could actually build there, and there certain things that were practically possible. A fair amount of the environment of the set is CG. … The sheer claustrophobia of it, the long, long takes where you are just watching them swimming toward him, I thought would be incredibly uncomfortable. Several things: Our approach in general was to shoot as much practically as we could, and use CG to augment that reality. The underwater scene looked particularly challenging to accomplish.
Cruise’s deformed face in 2001’s Vanilla Sky or his gray look in 2004’s Collateral caused quite the stir among fans, so it’s safe to say that his monstrous turn, when it’s revealed, could do the same. Morton is no longer a man, but has truly become a monster, with his face wrapped in bandages, apparently too horrifying for us to see. The final moments of the Universal film tease a very different type of character for Cruise to sink his teeth into going forward, should he return in titles in the Dark Universe, the shared universe the studio is launching with this movie.Ĭruise’s Nick Morton sacrifices himself in order to defeat the Mummy (Sofia Boutella) and resurrect Jenny ( Anabelle Wallis). “And in not saying anything but conveying that much to me, I thought oh my god, no matter how much prosthetics we put on her, no matter how much CG we put on her face, if I see this, she’s going to convey something very emotional to me.With The Mummy, Tom Cruise takes on his biggest onscreen transformation yet. “If you look at her eyes, and this is what I got from watching Kingsman, there’s a whole performance going on here,” explained director Alex Kurtzman, known for his writing on Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Now You See Me and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Boutella had previously appeared in Kingsman: The Secret Service as Gazelle, who has blades for legs. Sofia Boutella is an ancient Egyptian princess “whose destiny was unjustly taken from her” and has since returned to terrorise humankind. Unlike previous editions, the reboot features a female mummy. Morton and his colleagues find themselves entangled with the Prodigium, a monster hunting organisation led by Russell Crowe’s Henryk Jekyll.
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