[This story contains spoilers for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy.]
Jack Reynor is of two minds about the new ending to Lee Cronin’s The Mummy.
For starters, he’s honored to join the list of actors who’ve played the Mummy — a lineage that began with Boris Karloff’s iconic archetype in 1932’s The Mummy. He also recognizes that by trading places with his character’s mummified teenage daughter, Charlie Cannon is solving one problem but creating another for his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa), and their two other kids. This downbeat ending didn’t quite land with test audiences, resulting in a more crowd-pleasing coda via additional photography.
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Instead of ending on Charlie’s ultimate sacrifice for the sake of his 17-year-old daughter Katie, his mummified self is wheeled into a prison cell where the Magician (Hayat Kamille) is being held. The latter is the party
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