Alex Kurtzman, Director Of Tom Cruise's The Mummy, Called The Movie "The Biggest Failure Of His Life"
The 2017 action-horror was supposed to kick off a new shared universe series called Dark Universe.
Alex Kurtzman has admitted The Mummy was the "biggest failure of [his]life, both personally and professionally".
Kurtzman, 48, wrote and directed the Tom Cruise-starring movie was supposed to kickstart Universal's Dark Universe franchise but those plans were abandoned after the movie tanked at the box-office.
"And that was probably the biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally. There are about a million things I regret about it, but it also gave me so many gifts that are inexpressibly beautiful.
"I didn’t become a director until I made that movie, and it wasn’t because it was well directed — it was because it wasn’t.
"And I would not have understood many of the things that I now understand about what it means to be a director had I not gone through that experience. And as brutal as it was, in many ways, and with as many cooks in the kitchen as there were, I am very grateful for the opportunity to make those mistakes because it rebuilt me into a tougher person, and it also rebuilt me into a clearer filmmaker.”
Kurtzman is best known for his works with JJ Abrams on such TV shows as Alias and Fringe and movies like Mission: Impossible III and Star Trek. His latest, The Man Who Fell to Earth, is a 10-part series remake of the 1976 sci-fi classic, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.
He added: “Look, if you look at history and you look at people who’ve made amazing things, every single one of them will tell you the same story, which is that it came after a failure, so I look back on it now with gratitude. It took me a while to get there, but my life is better for it.” — BANG SHOWBIZ
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