The Mummy Cinematic Universe (MCU)

[@patrickthompson3216]

I did not anticipate my weekend consisting of watching 3+ hours of one person's deep dives into the mummy, its production, spinoffs, and the cinematic environment in which it rose to prominence, yet here we are.

[@aurafluff]

This video and Jenny Nicholson's "the grim dystopia of a Christmas prince" video should date

[@hootsyoutube]

Low-key, I love "The Christmas Prince" movies. They're so bad, they're good.

[@Diana-tl8pn]

I didn't know I wanted Socialist Jonathan in my life, but now I needed it

[@AtomicBananaPress]

It's not a bracelet, it's a MANacle. For boys, not icky girls!

[@Si3rr4WoW]

How long am I going to have to wait for the episode about Rachel Weisz's eyebrows?

[@hootsyoutube]

"Rachel Weisz's Eyebrows: An 11-Part Introspective"

[@Jane-oz7pp]

*Next Mummy video is just hoot talking over an image of Rachel Weisz's eyebrows*

[@paxtenebrae]

My boy Brendan Fraser is back in Hollywood's good graces and he's already said in interviews he's down to do another Mummy Movie. The time is now, Stephen! Make the friggin' movie!

[@NIRDIAN1]

Did you just... put together a whole-ass GOOD Mummy sequal that I most certainly desperately need to see?!

[@nightwingphd8580]

Your channel is criminally undersubscribed. The quality of your vids is as good as other comparable essayists and you're both well researched and hilarious. Totally charmed. I wish you much viewership in your future.

[@brttbrntt]

Damn you took the words right out of my mouth. I think enough time has passed that nostalgia will carry a fourth Mummy movie to huge success if they have a decent enough story. They should have made Rise of the Aztec and should have used it to do a soft reboot of Alex's character. Then they should have built a darker, grittier Dark Universe set in the late 19th/early 20th century and slowly build up recurring characters based around Van Helsing, before finally doing a Mummy/Van Helsing crossover where they return to Egypt where it all began and an elderly Van Helsing passes the torch onto Alex to continue the franchise. Yes, I've thought about this TOO MUCH.

[@NimhLabs]

Throw in a Live Action version of Jackie Chan Adventures that gets loosey tied in... and that would be perfect

[@brttbrntt]

@@NimhLabs meh I never loved the show although I did compulsively collect every single talisman 😂

[@owloko1349]

Can somebody give this man a goddam studio to run?

[@manueltheplebb]

'Scottish and Irish bog people.' Thats my family you're talking about.

[@jonathanmenegalli]

its been only a few days since i found your channel and i just can't stop watching.

[@Emiandradio]

Omg, same!

[@RyuichiShinomori]

I found it from the eyeball zone and I was legitimately excited to find this in my subscriptions tab. I really enjoyed the aids Video, like it is criminally unheralded atm.... but yo, I am here for all “The Mummy” talk, like literally all of it.

[@TheLeftistCooks]

Hercules and Xena the animated movie AND an animated prequel to Van Helsing?! This channel is an important font of information.

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

Wait what? How did i miss that. I coulda sworn i had every cartoon by now

[@retlaw83]

How dare you bring back all of my repressed memories of the Mummy animated TV show.

[@WBWhiting]

Rachel Weisz plays ancient mathematician Hypatia in the movie Agora, I think it is a very under-rated good movie.

[@sarcasticallyyours]

I second this statement

[@reneedailey1696]

YES She's incredible in it, and it was a treat to see Alexandria as it might have been, albeit in decline.

[@Dunybrook]

I don't know if the sequel you want could ever be made in Hollywood but I'd love to watch a behind the scenes documentary about the attempt.

[@ismathers]

well damn, now I want THAT movie

[@morgansearle3912]

That little 'hi mom' at the end is one of the most adorable things I've ever seen lmao

[@hootsyoutube]

My mom is one of my patreon subscribers. Wholesome.

[@nancyh4889]

Mom says "hi Morgan!"

[@morgansearle3912]

@@nancyh4889 Oh my god you two are gonna give me diabetes, that's so sweet. And thanks for the shoutout, Hootma!

[@nancyh4889]

@@morgansearle3912

[@d.w.stratton4078]

@@hootsyoutube Awww. My mom disowned me for dunking on Trump. You're very fortunate!!

[@LuisHdezLa]

The mexica (wrongly called the aztec) didn't practice the process of mummification, nor any mesoamerican civilization. The small number of "mummies" in Mesoamerica are product of natural preservation in dry environments. As far as I know, the mummies of South America, including those from Peru, exists also because of the extremely dry or cold climate

[@RageTreb]

Definitely doesn't make it okay, but I think they might've changed the hair colors in the animated series because they didn't have the likeness rights to the actors' faces? A similar thing happened in the Minority Report video game back in the day, where they made the main character blonde to really emphasize that it wasn't supposed to be Tom Cruise

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

Could also be a way just to make them stand out more, it’s partly why anime has vibrant hairstyles. Egons hair in the actual ghostbusters movie is boring meanwhile his bright blonde curl in the real/xtreme ghost busters is totally slaaaayyy

[@FionaOfMountLawley]

So between The Mummy and The Mummy III: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor, there's a progression from being not-Indiana Jones to being not-The Jewel of the Nile. The Jewel of the Nile was the sequel to Romancing the Stone (itself another not-Indiana Jones film) and the plot point which incites the action is the petering out of the relationship between Jack Colton and Joan Wilder since the events of Romancing The Stone. An aimless life living on a sailing boat mooring in one resort town after another before moving on has palled. She takes a job to ghost-write the 'autobiography' of a North African despot and briefly contemplates the possibility a romantic relationship with her client but quickly needs rescuing. It was explicitly stated in Jewel of the Nile that the relationship worked in the context of a mutual sharing of the experience of adventure and without that there was little else to hold it together. It is re-kindled as a result of being subject to a state of crisis again (until the next time I guess). Joan Wilder was a romance writer, as Evie suddenly was in The Mummy III. Jack Colton was, like Rick O'Connell, an adventurer. Oh, and in a cancelled third entry to the Romancing the Stone films (The Crimson Eagle) the plot would have revolved around the children of Colton and Wilder being imperilled, instigating the action. Sounds kind of familiar.

[@wokeaf1242]

Let me be honest. I totally hate you because I love your lighting. Even when you're just in your room sitting on the mattress, you're lighting rocks. In this video, it was totally fantastic. I'm thoroughly jealous. I wanted you to know that as I try my hand at this KZbin thing and I over contrast my video and end up looking like an extra from the walking Walking Dead because my lighting totally sucks, I will think "I'll never get that awesome lighting Little Hoot has." Then I'll turn green with envy and be forced to just audition for the lead in the live-action Kermit The Frog bio. So I totally have that to look forward to. Anyway, thanks for reminding me of the Mummy movies. I totally forgot how much fun they were. (Yeah, even the Third one.). Never saw the animation. I think I was too busy being a Buffy geek back then. Never going to check it out. But it was a (warning, obvious pun alert) hoot to hear about it.

[@hootsyoutube]

Honestly, my lighting isn't even that good! But getting a cheapish ring light definitely helped!

[@pascalsmit8739]

It's official, hoots needs to (re)make the entire franchise.

[@sentientbakedziti]

I love the use of the Angry Beavers theme as montage music

[@NimhLabs]

That whole bit of describing your ideal version of the fourth movie has me craving to rewatch (binge) Jackie Chan Adventures

[@DezMarivette]

Your brilliant assessment totally fixes the casting! I recently watched Mummy 3 for the first time (I definitely resented it for existing without Rachel but I’m older and wiser and know Evie2 is just an actress with big shoes to fill!) and I was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable it ended up being, for the most part. For me it wasn’t even the romance novelist part that annoyed me - it was how she longed for the traumatic adventures again! Like I’m sorry no Evelyn actually died and was resurrected there’s no way she’s sighing like those were the good old days 😂 BUT with the concept of “Mary Bella” writing these adventures as though they are hers - poof! Fixed! Excellent love your addition to Mummy. Make the movie Stephen. Make the movie.

[@janettewong9900]

Watching this 2 years after it came out, I wonder that your thoughts on on Disney’s “Jungle Cruise” It felt like a very neutered version of “The Mummy”

[@Molly-ml1wn]

And that's to say nothing of the differences between The Mummies 1, 2, and 3, and the 4th one that came out in 2017! It's like they're completely different movies!

[@canalsincontenido]

I was sort of hoping you'd touch on that weird cliffhanger ending the show had, I don't remember it at all except that it was super confusing. But I really liked your pitch. I think the kids' romance plot could be sort of a wink at the parents, Brendan saying something like "Archeologists, I told you" to his son. I guess that would be cheesy enough to kill 2 or 3 people.

[@triccele]

Goddamnit, that sounds like a really good idea for a campy action adventure movie.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

30:55 And cast little hoot in it as the badass woman who slaps Jonathan around a little for being overamorous, then we can give him a little character development and maybe show young boys that being sleezey isn't okay. 😎

[@freyabees]

Did you say Rickipedia? That’s good shit.

[@diego2112gaming]

"Make it the way I told you to make it, Steven." I'd pay to watch it, I'll tell ya that for nothin'.

[@denderrant]

That was a seriously good pitch. I would watch the crap out of that movie.

[@Dave-hp4vh]

Man you are great! Gotta spread the word on this channel folks.

[@MadamMelonMeow]

I had the hercules xena movie on VCR and genuinely loved it as a kid.

[@M.M.83-U]

Wonderfull! You salvage the third film.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

How are you so criminally undersubbed?

[@Jane-oz7pp]

29:20 riddles, it's gotta be riddles. But specifically ones from Tolkien, because then she'll know the answers as someone who reads more than just egyptian texts.

[@searchingfororion]

She tricks a bad guy with, "What's in my pocket?"

[@8bitbaz50]

I loved reading Brer Rabbit as a kid

[@bridgetcooney5085]

I want the story you described. I'm not certain it can happen, but it's maybe possible in our current climate. And I really wish I happens.

[@UsenameTakenWasTaken]

Did... Did I just listen to a fan fic audio book?

[@katesidhe]

i went "oh noooo" right around 1:35 and that's a pretty good start-to-oof time

[@Liboo52]

Ooooh her last name is Hootman, that’s amazing 🦉

[@Sammie_Sorrelly]

I can't watch the end of this video and not flinch away from my screen a little, as it turns out.

[@olahfeji]

Why's there noone taking about the dip dye pattern shorts? That vivid orange of a shirt and the pants AND the what? jaunty polka? Wow, I didn't know i loved these things this much.

[@Nagoragama]

I remember seeing the Mummy Animated series back in the day. Such a weird thing to turn into an animated series for kids. They tried to turn everything into animated series back then though.

[@niauropsaka]

Make the movie, Stephen!

[@SKULLKR3W]

This is so perfect

[@Jay32954]

Brb, just gonna write a fanfic.

[@theorganicshadow]

Thanks for making me feel even less weird about not ever watching the sequels.

[@Disthron]

I don't know, maybe I'm weird but if I could turn back time and somehow influence the development of the Mummy franchise. I would try and get them to face up against other Universal monsters. Like Vampires, Werewolf's and merfolk. Like I can imagen Frankenstein's Monster being a few movies in when they eventually introduce the Nazis as antagonists.

[@hootsyoutube]

Honestly I was so excited about the Dark Universe and then they released that Tom Cruise Mummy movie… 😬

[@ch3burashka]

I was just talking about this yesterday.

[@jblue1622]

I think I vaguely remember the animated series but knew it was bad so I never watched it despite being a fan of the first film and partial fan of the second

[@AnxiousGary]

Make the movie, Stephen!!

[@arturo182]

Do it, Stephen!

[@srenchin]

0:11 Cats!

[@Notveryimpressed]

"light grey throbbing" Well done KZbin.

[@aboomination897]

I'm glad someone else watched all those movies and spin-offs for me ^^ Just like with Jurassic Park, imo only the first one is worth remembering.

[@MulberryDays]

also Camp Cretaceous - which is simply the best jurassic park content and yes i'm including the books

[@patjenkins3032]

this is great

[@DrAnarchy69]

Why did I not know that The Mummy had an animated adaptation? I need to watch this now (as long as it’s not a horrible kids show).

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

It was kids wb, so sorta like jackie chan adventures. I like it but thats a low bar

[@NawidN]

You credit Incompetech for the music in the video, but one part is clearly from The Angry Beavers. Weirdly, it sounds like it's from the Dutch version (Boze Bevers).

[@Mitsu2040]

Alex training with the Magi would have been a better third movie

[@Jane-oz7pp]

10:11 not universally. I completely forget this movie even happened because it's quite simply not The Mummy. So some of us simply forget that there ever was a second Evelyn.

[@biggsducklighter6171]

Okay, but what if Mary Bella was so obsessed with the O'Connells that she sabotaged their relationship, wormed her way into Rick's life, then married him but insisted he call her Evie. And she had a son from a previous relationship that she started calling Alex, which would of course explain the accent change...

[@samanthanewport6709]

Undead conquistadors in the same vein as The Mummy, you say? Sounds like Jungle Cruise is the disappointing Lenny popping into the room for this one

[@BoboftheOldeWays]

I mean, "manacle" does contain the word "man"...

[@aurora.the.explorer]

STEVEN. Make THE MUMMY: THE RISE OF THE AZTEC.

[@frankatronx8041]

Only here for the Bog People shout out. REPRESENT!!!

[@Sre171]

You can't just name drop Bryce Dallas Howard like that

[@TwoWholeWorms]

Strewth, how many films I've seen has Michelle Yeoh been in?! O.o

[@banquetoftheleviathan1404]

I wish they just expanded this out into the dark universe. I recently had me a lil feature of league or extrodinary gentleman, hellsing, hellboy etc. felt like the next step after watching these. Corny and bad but that’s my special power, i can enjoy those things

[@jsunflyguy]

My attempt at reasonable criticism, I think the video needed more visual interest. Even if it was a slight angle change or full screening the graphics rather than staring down the barrel for 30 minutes (I did find the video interesting, just a thought that was stuck in my mind).

[@jessewoellhof6843]

It is worth looking into early 20th century chinese history cuz basically from world war I through 1948 china was fully war torn and none of these stories touching china could have avoided the tumult

[@d.w.stratton4078]

Am I misremembering: didn't you get eyeball zoned? Would you like to be featured on thought slime's eyeball zone if not?

[@Disthron]

Wow, I had no idea they were supposed to be half Egyptian. I thought they were just straight up British.

[@effeilensucre]

If someone was planning to make this, that would be a big shut up and take my money moment for me

[@voidstuffs2592]

All hail the algorithm

[@rjones197]

Came for the leftist content, stayed for the fluffing of the algorithm!

[@aj7058]

Do I need to watch your other mummy videos before I watch this one???

[@hootsyoutube]

Not really. I do reference the others, but they can be watched in any order.

[@that_nao]

wait but was the Albert Einstein thing just meme-ing, or...?

[@hootsyoutube]

No, honest to god her math teacher was Albert Einstein.

[@ed022859]

Do I drink first or view first then start drinking? (9_9)

[@matttran7161]

I followed The Cummy Pipeline and it's lead me here...

[@Furore2323]

Why aren't you in charge? Damn it.

[@arnaudgerard1971]

Pitch it. Maybe writer guy and producer guy can help you. Super easy, barely an inconvinience. :)

[@spuriusbrocoli4701]

Make the movie, Steven.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

I don't care how legal it is, a hundreds-of-years-old person and a young-twenties-possibly-late-teens person romance is basically impossible to do ethically because of the maturity, knowledge and experience differences and thus power imbalance. So y'know, Alex falling in love with an immortal witch from hundreds of years ago is a pretty gross thing. Oh and she literally can do magic, compounding the power imbalance even more. It's a yikes from me dawg

[@hootsyoutube]

"It's a yikes from me dawg" sums up the entire movie.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

@@hootsyoutube It's a pity, because I had super high hopes for it when it was announced. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think the later Scorpion King movies were actually better.

[@NIRDIAN1]

@@Jane-oz7pp The Buried To The Neck scene is still taking up space in my brain over a decade after seeing the movie randomly on German television. That movie felt campy as hell and a superb spinoff!

[@karlmuller3690]

Who's here because they caught ... in the "Eyeball Zone"?

[@calvinware7957]

Engagement

[@geraldd9738]

whos is going to mention the angry beavers theme? ... what an odd and not subtle music choice

[@sugar_walls]

little hoot stephen sommers mummy youtubimatic universe has already eclipsed dark universe, cruise last seen weeping blood aboard a sea org dinghy

[@Lycandros]

👍👍

[@ed022859]

I am so old.(C_C)

[@Redem10]

Heh I'M the one so who keep trying to figure out a better version of the Tom Cruise's Mummy movie, who am I to judge?

[@iopohable]

Algorithms for the algorithm god

[@meghanoneill6845]

make the movie steven

[@dancoroian1]

...Nefertiti or Nefertari? To my knowledge "Nefertiri" does not exist

[@hootsyoutube]

The character's name is Nefertiri.

[@dancoroian1]

@@hootsyoutube Interesting, I thought it was meant to be a real reference. Thanks for clarifying!

[@steampunkerella]

ugh, i hate the third mummy movie

[@scofah]

Tooooooo much background music 😢. Not necessary.

[@MeowMeow_95_]

Her fucking BEER!!! 💀💀💀