The real question is: why is Cruise's Mummy character in Oxford, England? Although the plot crafted by screenwriter Jon Spaihts ( Prometheus, the upcoming Doctor Strange) remains a mystery at this stage, it would appear that Cruise is there to see Wallis' archaeologist, who probably works at the university. The first photos of Tom Cruise on the set of The Mummy! #TheMummy /vaPLiKYTVn You can check out those set photos for The Mummy at the link included below: While these images don't really give much away, what the photos do confirm is that the film is set in the present day (as previously reported), as we can tell by the contemporary clothing being worn by the pair - something that makes all the more sense, what with Cruise playing a former Navy SEAL. The pictures show a night shoot somewhere in the center of the famous university city. The plot sees Cruise's ex-Navy SEAL take on a Mummy that is being played by Sofia Boutella ( Kingsman: The Secret Service).Ĭoming Soon has posted the first set photos of Cruise and Wallis - who, in the latter's case, is playing an archaeologist - filming scenes in Oxford, England for The Mummy reboot. Action veteran Tom Cruise ( Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation), Annabelle Wallis ( Peaky Blinders) and Jake Johnson ( New Girl) are starring in the film, with Alex Kurtzman (co-writer of Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness) in the director's chair. Universal Pictures is now working on a reboot of The Mummy franchise in order to launch a rebooted version of Universal's shared monster movie universe. However the third film in the trilogy was not as financially successful as its predecessors and also suffered critically. A box office hit, the Egyptian horror/adventure/comedy spawned two sequels - The Mummy Returns (2001) and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) - as well as an animated TV series and the spin-off film series The Scorpion King, the first of which starred Dwayne Johnson. For many filmgoers, the most well-known and recent iteration is the Stephen Sommers-directed and Brendan Fraser led The Mummy back in 1999. First immortalised by Boris Karloff in 1932, The Mummyhas been a horror classic time and time again in cinema.

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