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Kurtzman & Orci Will Reboot 'Mummy' and 'Van Helsing', and Tom Cruise Will Go Ahead and Be Van Helsing

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Hollywood's large-scale plan to eliminate all evidence that director Stephen Sommers ever existed is finally making some ground over at Universal, where prolific blockbuster creators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have been hired to overwrite all the supernatural bullshit Sommers contrived with The Mummy and Van Helsing.

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Kurtzman and Orci Will Write Your Next Spider-Man

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Over the last few years, the inconsistent writing team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci have typed-out vivid description of explosions into a long, CGI chain-robot of blockbusters and lesser, would-be tentpoles. Since 2005, the two have shared credit on The Island, Mission: Impossible III, two Transformers films, the Star Trek reboot, and Cowboys & Aliens. They also wrote The Legend of Zorro, in which a horse smokes a pipe. Now they're going to try their hand at a Spider-Man movie.

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