The Mummy director Stephen Sommers clears up some rumors about casting surrounding Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt as well as a Brendan Fraser stunt.
, the action-adventure movie grossed over $1 million across 1,200 theaters in North America. Now that audiences are getting back into, he debunked a casting rumor that said Cruise and Pitt were first considered for the lead role of Rick O’Connell before Fraser.
Tom Cruise did end up making his way to The Mummy franchise in the 2017 remake. Despite aiming to launchThere was another rumor that Brendan Fraser almost died during The Mummy when a hanging scene went wrong. Stephen Sommers claimed the dangers surrounding that scary moment weren’t as bad as headlines made it out to be.
Shockingly enough, Brendan Fraser’s carotid arteries cut off during that scene which made The Whale actor go unconscious. Sommers assured The Daily Beast that everyone made sure to stay with him to see he was okay. When Fraser woke up, the American film director said the lead actor had no recollection of what happened.
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