Tom Cruise is hoping to jump-start Universal's monster movies and turn them into a Marvel-like mega-franchise.
This week he got the ball rolling by unravelling The Mummy into cinemas.
And flipping the Mummy legend on its head was just the kind of movie Tom Cruise wanted to make.
"When they asked me to do it there really wasn't a script but Alex sent me a photo of Sofia as the Mummy and I was like this is gonna be cool this sparks the imagination," he says.
Cruise has been monster man his whole life and has big plans for Universal's big stable of classic monsters.
"I grew up as a kid on Saturday and Sunday nights - when I was a little kid - watching the original Mummy's [movies] and those original monster movies from Universal that really made the Studio - they're from the 1930's," he says.
"I love this genre, and to be able to have a chance to bring it to a modern audience in an adventurous terrifying and epic way with her as The Mummy was very exciting."
Exciting is how his co-star also describes her Mummy experience, exciting and death-defying with Cruise of course insistent they all do their own stunts.
"He made sure all my wires were hooked correctly he told me how to go about it he was present and incredibly supportive," actress Sophia Boutella says.
"It's important to do your own stunts, it's your character, you're responsible for it. If he's doing it, I have to do it.
"I feel very much inspired by him, I admire him wildly."
Another big fan of Cruise, is his old mate Russell Crowe.
Cruise and Crowe have been mates for well over 20 years and they've never worked together until now.
Crowe had always worried he'd be playing the bad guy to Tom's good guy but Crowe had other ideas.
"I've always said to him I'd rather we were a team. I'd rather it was Butch and Sundance you know what I mean?" he says.
"And the interesting thing about this film is you don't really know who connects to who and whose the good guy and whose the bad guy."
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