VIDEO : Will Russell Crowe Join the Cast of Tom Cruise's The Mummy Reboot?

Russell Crowe Russell Crowe is in talks to join the cast of the Tom Cruise led reboot of The Mummy. According to reports, the Man of Steel actor and Gladiator star will play a ?Dr. Jekyll? type role. The Mummy is the next film in the Universal Monsters shared cinematic universe, following Dracula Untold. The decision to make Untold part of a larger cinematic landscape was made at the eleventh hour of the film?s production, so The Mummy will be the first film in the series to be fully conceptualized as part of this new universe.