With Lee Cronin’s The Mummy being a full on gnarly horror experience it is doing well at the box office but the ending that we see on the film is different from what was originally intended. So what was the original ending of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy?
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What was the original ending of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy?
The original ending which is still in the film sees father Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor) trading places with his character’s mummified teenage daughter. But whilst it solves problem it creates another for his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa), and their two other kids who are now without a husband and father. It’s a very downbeat ending and one that test audiences were not keen on and the film makers went about reworking the ending to end on a more positive note.
Jack Reynor said, ‘ At the end, he makes the ultimate sacrifice of his own life to save his daughter, and he basically becomes the mummy instead of her. So you could look at that through the lens of it being a selfless act of love and sacrifice for his child. ……On the other hand, this is a guy who’s just spent the last eight years being so tortured by the sense that he should never have been a father in the first place. His sacrifice is almost like a respite for him: Okay, cool. I’m going to be the Mummy now, but I’m not going to have to deal with this family shit anymore. Whether people interpret that or not in the film, that was always an interesting idea in the back of my mind.
So when they film makers went for a different ending he said, ‘You make these decisions because you want to give the audience what they want, and I understand that. Is it a better movie, objectively speaking? I don’t know. I did like Lee’s original ending. But I also understand that if I went to see that movie with my teenage kids and they were bummed out because it was so fucking bleak at the end, maybe I’d be [more in favor of the new ending]. So I get it both ways. I see the merits of both for different reasons.’
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