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"Len Wiseman has entered talks to direct the upcoming reboot of The Mummy. The Total Recall director is the current top choice for the latest version of the action series from Universal Pictures, according to Deadline.   The reboot project was first announced back in April, with Star Trek scribe Alex Kurtzman signing up to write a &amp;quot;darker&amp;quot; version of the franchise. The Mummy was originally a classic horror movie from 1932 starring Boris Karloff, before it was revived as an action trio of films with Brendan Fraser in the late 1990s. Kurtzman and Roberto Orci will produce the reboot, along with recent Mummy filmmakers Sean Daniels and Jim Jacks. Jon Spaihts (Prometheus) has also been working on the script for the film, which will reportedly be set in the modern day. Kurtzman is also working on a reboot of Van Helsing, with Tom Cruise attached to star. Watch a trailer for the 1999 release of The Mummy below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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