8. The Mummy
Number of reboots: 4
Although The Mummy is one of the original Universal Monsters movie franchises, it hasn’t had as many reboots as its contemporaries. There were only six films in the first incarnation of the films, which starred iconic horror actors such as Boris Karloff, Tom Tyler, Lon Chaney Jr., and Eddie Parker. Only Tyler and Chaney played the same Mummy, while Karloff and Parker’s mummies were meant to be separate characters. Hammer Films then had its own line of Mummy movies from 1959 to 1971.
The 1999 reboot of The Mummy with Brendan Fraser as the heroic Rick O’Connell is the most famous set of films in this franchise. The second movie, 2001’s The Mummy Returns, even spawned off a separate franchise, The Scorpion King, for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but he only headlined a single Scorpion King film before the series went direct-to-video.
Tom Cruise’s 2017 reboot of The Mummy was meant to kick off the Dark Universe continuity of the Universal Monsters including Dracula and Frankenstein. However, it was soundly rejected by audiences and this shared universe was dead after only a single film.
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