{"id":100134,"date":"2017-05-18T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/?p=188202"},"modified":"2017-05-18T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:38:07","slug":"creativity-because-its-2017-the-mummy-is-being-rebooted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/18\/creativity-because-its-2017-the-mummy-is-being-rebooted\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity, because it\u2019s 2017 The Mummy is being rebooted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngNLw24D3p0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone explain to me why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B006VRRGNK\/geneexpressio-20\">The Mummy<\/a>, a B-list franchise from the turn of the century, is getting a reboot? In particular, a reboot with Tom Cruise, who is definitely an A-list actor?<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B006VRRGNK\/geneexpressio-20\">The Mummy<\/a> was getting rebooted with Tom Cruise I assumed it was some fan-made trailer. Obviously I don&#8217;t know the entertainment industry logic here, but I think understanding that logic might give us a window into the economic and social history of this industrial sector in our age.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F18%2Fcreativity-because-its-2017%2F&amp;linkname=Creativity%2C%20because%20it%E2%80%99s%202017%20The%20Mummy%20is%20being%20rebooted\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F18%2Fcreativity-because-its-2017%2F&amp;linkname=Creativity%2C%20because%20it%E2%80%99s%202017%20The%20Mummy%20is%20being%20rebooted\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/google_plus?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F18%2Fcreativity-because-its-2017%2F&amp;linkname=Creativity%2C%20because%20it%E2%80%99s%202017%20The%20Mummy%20is%20being%20rebooted\" title=\"Google+\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><\/a><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnxp.nofe.me%2F2017%2F05%2F18%2Fcreativity-because-its-2017%2F&amp;title=Creativity%2C%20because%20it%E2%80%99s%202017%20The%20Mummy%20is%20being%20rebooted\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/gnxp.nofe.me\/2017\/05\/18\/creativity-because-its-2017\/\" data-a2a-title=\"Creativity, because it\u2019s 2017 The Mummy is being rebooted\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone explain to me why The Mummy, a B-list franchise from the turn of the century, is getting a reboot? In particular, a reboot with Tom Cruise, who is definitely an A-list actor? When I first heard that The Mummy was getting rebooted with Tom Cruise I assumed it was some fan-made trailer. Obviously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,2699],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-the-mummy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100135,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100134\/revisions\/100135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}