Tom Cruise’s The Mummy reboot tried and failed to kick off a new cinematic universe – and came at the expense of a planned Dracula Untold sequel. Shared universes became all the rage during the 2010s, with studios rushing to recreate the unprecedented success of the MCU. Only a handful of these took off though, such as Warner Bros’ Monsterverse, while others – such as Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – sunk like stones. One of the more embarrassing examples came with 2017’s The Mummy, which Universal proclaimed to be the start of their
