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Human Sacrifice Victim’s Teeth Reveal His Life Story
When you die, what story will your teeth hold for the geneticists of the future? Hopefully the tale will be more uplifting than that of Vittrup Man, a forager-turned-farmer whose skull was smashed in over 5,000 years ago in what is now Denmark. A team of researchers recently scrutinized the isotopes locked away in Vittrup…
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Brendan Fraser Would Absolutely Sign Up for a Mummy Reboot
In a new interview, Brendan Fraser revealed that he would be open to joining any reboot of The Mummy that Universal might be planning. Setting aside the 2017 update with Tom Cruise (which I didn’t think was all that bad, actually!), which offered a totally new take within the same mythos, we’ve yet to see…
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Tom Cruise’s Mummy Reboot Wasn’t All Bad, It Was Just Misguided
Over the past few days, stories have been written (including on this website) about how Alex Kurtzman, the director of the new series The Man Who Fell to Earth, really feels about working on 2017’s The Mummy in the wake of a new Bingeworthy podcast interviewing the director. Not a huge surprise, but he feels……
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The Dark Universe’s Bride of Frankenstein Would have Been a Time-Hopping, Gothic Horror Film
Universal’s Dark Universe died before it could even get off the ground, one of multiple attempts at building a cinematic universe after Marvel’s made it look so cool in the present day. But audiences very much said “yeah, no” to its debut film, the Tom Cruise-led The Mummy, back in 2017. Among the various plans…