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James Wan Didn't Storm Out of a 'Mummy' Test Screening, He Just Needed to Pee

Gizmodo·Cheryl Eddy·about 1 month ago
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Whether you loved or hated Lee Cronin’s The Mummy —or found it fun but forgettable , as we did—there’s no denying it displays some pretty obvious influences. That includes, of course, mummy movies of the past (as well as possession movies), but stylistically it’s very much in the vein of films made by its producers, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster . That includes the many works of James Wan, who never met a creepy kid or gory flourish he didn’t love. So it’s wild to imagine that Wan would be seen storming out of a test screening of his company’s big spring release—and as it turns out, that’s not quite the right description for what actually happened. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter , Cronin himself cleared up the test-screening gossip. “There was a claim that [producer] James Wan walked out of a test screening [in disgust],” Cronin told THR. “No, he needed to go to the bathroom. It was also the third time he’d seen the movie at that point.…

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