The titular villain in the upcoming The Mummy reboot originally looked identical to X-Men's Apocalypse.
In an interview with CinemaBlend, The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman revealed that, after watching X-Men: Days of Future Past, he had to abandon his initial male version for the Mummy. Now, the monster is Ahmanet, played Star Trek Beyond's Sofia Boutella.
Kurtzman wanted the character to have a skin pigmentation, which would've made him a bullied outcast. That way, the director wanted audiences to more easily sympathize with the Mummy. Apocalypse is given an near-identical background in Days of Future Past.
Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse.
"I was going down that road, and then I saw the end of Days of Future Past," Kurtzman told CinemaBlend. "And they had the character that Oscar Isaac wound up playing as a boy, and it was, I kid you not, the exact same design."
Kurtzman explained that, after watching Days of Future Past, he immediately decided to change courses, not wanting to "mess around even remotely with anything that feels familiar or feels like it's been done."
Since the director was already thinking about making a potential female version of the iconic monster, it felt a easier to actually go in that direction.
The Mummy hits theaters June 8, 2017.
A new trailer for the film, which stars Tom Cruise, is along with its first poster. IGN also got the chance to interview Kurtzman about building a shared Universal Monsters universe.
Alex Gilyadov is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
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