Both Fort Brydon and Colonel Brydon were new inventions for their respective '90s movies and not present in any original stories, so the nod seems very intentional. Related: Jungle Cruise & Indiana Jones Shared Universe - Theory ExplainedĪ post by Redditor u/Numerous-Lemon on the movie Easter egg haven of r/MovieDetails points out that a location visited in The Mummy called Fort Brydon is named in reference to Colonel Geoffrey Brydon (Sam Neill) from 1994's The Jungle Book.

Both have also received more recent adaptations with Disney's 2016 The Jungle Book and Tom Cruise's poorly-received 2017 The Mummy, the latter of which was meant to initiate its own shared Dark Universe based on the beloved Universal Monsters movies.

Having been involved in The Mummy's sequels and many of its Scorpion King spin-offs, Sommers's most recent work as a writer-director is the 2013 adaptation of Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas.īefore the Sommers connection, both movies were based on existing, otherwise unrelated source material Universal Monsters' classic The Mummy from 1932, and Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories from the late 19th century.

Stephen Sommers directed and had a hand in writing both films, which were released in 19, respectively. A recent bit of movie trivia posted has inspired a theory that The Jungle Book and The Mummy take place in the same world.

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