10 Horror Movies That Teased A Sequel Which Never Happened
4. The Mummy
While Lee Cronin's upcoming take on The Mummy immediately looks scarier than anything the franchise has ever put out, Tom Cruise's 2017 hot mess of a reboot certainly held more horror elements than that of Brendan Fraser's, and was intended to kick off an entire shared universe of classic horror characters.
In the midst of Hollywood's cinematic universe craze, Universal's Dark Universe was already taking shape thanks to publicity photos featuring Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem and Sofia Boutella.
Crowe portrayed Dr. Jekyll in The Mummy, and was supposed to be the Nick Fury-esque character that brought Universal's monster characters together on the big screen. He featured heavily in the Dark Universe's first outing with the intent to spread the first breadcrumbs of what was to come, which ultimately came to be nothing.
Not that the shared universe eventually fizzled out, it led to literally nothing as not a single planned entry was made thanks to just how bad the film bombed. Crowe's presence in the opening chapter was far more than Fury appearing at the end of Iron Man and name dropping the Avengers Initiative, ultimately killing the idea of not just a sequel, but an entire would-be mega franchise. Let's walk before we can run next time, yes?