The Netflix charts have a big surprise in store for movies. A failed fantasy blockbuster from 2017 takes on Dungeons & Dragons.
Anyone who has taken a look at the top 10 most popular movies on Netflix in the past few days is likely to have quickly stumbled across Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Since last weekend, the good-humored fantasy adventure has been topping the streaming charts. Now, however, an unexpected competitor is emerging from the shadows.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is not the only fantasy adventure film that is very popular on Netflix. The Mummy is also very popular with subscribers. Yet when it came out in theaters seven years ago, the film was a huge flop, which the director is still annoyed about today.
Fantasy duel in the streaming charts on Netflix: The Mummy goes up against Dungeons & Dragons
The Mummy was supposed to lay the foundation for the Dark Universe, in which all the monsters from the Universal archive are brought together along the lines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, it never got further than the starting signal with Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella. The film was a disappointment both financially and qualitatively.
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The Mummy did manage to gross over $400 million, as Box Office Mojo summarizes. However, anyone looking to launch a new franchise in Hollywood today is likely to be thinking of much bigger numbers. After all, The Mummy had one of the biggest movie stars of all time behind it, not to mention the monster brand.
With a mere 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 further films such as The Invisible Man with Johnny Depp and Frankenstein’s Monster with Javier Bardem had already been announced.
