Anyone who has taken a look at the in the past few days Top 10 most popular movies on Netflix You may have quickly stumbled upon Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The cheerful fantasy adventure has been topping the streaming charts since last weekend. Now, however, an unexpected competitor is emerging from the shadows.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves isn’t the only fantasy adventure film coming to Netflix enjoyed great popularity. The Mummy is also very popular with subscribers. The film was a massive flop when it was released seven years ago, which the director is still angry about today.
Fantasy duel in the streaming charts on Netflix: The Mummy competes against Dungeons & Dragons
The mummy should Foundation stone for the Dark Universe in which all monsters from the Universal archives are brought together based on the model of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, there was never anything more than the starting signal with Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella. The film was a disappointment financially and qualitatively.
You can watch the trailer for The Mummy here:
The Mummy – Trailer 2 (German) HD
The Mummy was able to gross over $400 million, as Box Office Mojo summarizes. Anyone who wants to start a new franchise in Hollywood these days however, assumes larger numbers. After all, The Mummy had one of the biggest movie stars ever behind it, not to mention the monster brand.
15 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 34 out of 100 points on Metacritic: The Mummy was not well received at all. Without further ado all Dark Universe plans were shelved
– even though other films such as The Invisible Man with Johnny Depp and Frankenstein’s Monster with Javier Bardem had already been announced.
The Mummy was a colossal failure – and no one knows that better than director Alex Kurtzman
The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman looked back at the fantasy flop two years ago and drew a bitter conclusion. On The Playlist podcast Bingeworthy he said:
[Die Mumie] was fine the worst defeat of my life. I regret a million things about it. I wasn’t a director yet. As brutal as it was, it made me a tougher person and a more clear-eyed filmmaker. Now when I feel like something is wrong, I no longer remain silent.
The Mummy is still going through the roof on Netflix. We have seen this phenomenon several times in the past: films that flopped in the cinema suddenly find their way very popular with the streaming platform. The aforementioned Dungeons & Dragons has had a similar fate.