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Daniel Radcliffe’s Love for The Mummy Led Him Straight to The Lost City

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Published on March 24, 2022

Screenshot: Paramount Pictures
Daniel Radcliffe in The Lost City
Screenshot: Paramount Pictures

If you do not enjoy or at least appreciate the 1999 cinematic masterpiece The Mummy, starring beautiful geniuses Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser, I don’t know what to tell you. It is an important film to many people in many ways! And one of those people, it turns out, is Daniel Radcliffe, who is also a fan of The Mummy. Such a fan, in fact, that his Mummy love led straight to his role in the upcoming adventure The Lost City.

“I think that’s a generally good blanket rule,” Radcliffe says in the video below, “is make the films that you would wanna see.” And what he wants to see is more like The Mummy.

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“There are no movies like this,” Radcliffe says, and sadly, that is true. Even the sequels to The Mummy are not like The Mummy.

Radcliffe’s role in The Lost City is not that of an adventurer; no, he’s the eccentric billionaire (and dapper dresser) who kidnaps author Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock) in an attempt to get her to lead him to the lost city from her latest novel. Channing Tatum is the hunky cover model of Loretta’s books, who decides to prove he’s a hero in real life by rescuing her. Also, Brad Pitt shows up and tosses his hair. It all looks extremely delightful and seems very in keeping with Radcliffe’s recent choices. (Let us not forget that he has played a farting corpse, and will soon be playing Weird Al Yankovic.)

The Lost City opens in theaters tomorrow, March 25th.

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Molly Templeton

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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
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