Director calls Tom Cruise’s ‘The Mummy’ his ‘worst failure.’

According to People magazine, Alex Kurtzman, the director of the 2017 Tom Cruise blockbuster The Mummy, has revealed that the film has proven to be the ‘worst flop’ of his life.

Kurtzman addressed his opinion on the big-budget relaunch of the successful classic franchise on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast, saying that despite a superb star cast, he’regrets’ producing the picture.

“I tend to adhere to the viewpoint that you learn nothing from your achievements and everything from your misfortunes,” Kurtzman remarked.

“There are about a million things I regret about The Mummy,” he said, “but it also offered me so many inexpressibly lovely gifts.”

Kurtzman describes the incident as a “huge learning experience” and a “turning moment” in his filmmaking career.

“I didn’t become a director until I made that film, and it wasn’t because it was poorly directed — it was because it wasn’t,” he explained.

“Had I not gone through that experience, I would not have grasped many of the things that I now understand about what it takes to be a filmmaker,” he continued.

“I am extremely thankful to have been given the chance to make those errors, because it rebuilt me into a tougher person, and it also rebuilt me into a clearer filmmaker,” he said of his first experience working on a huge project.

Universal Studios funded Kurtzman’s version on The Mummy, which cost roughly $95 million to create.

The picture also stars Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, and Russell Crowe, in addition to Cruise.