In 2001, Brendan Fraser and Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick teamed for Monkeybone. Why has it been forgotten?
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Yet, one movie Fraser did pretty soon after The Mummy has all but been forgotten, the live-action/ stop-motion hybrid Monkeybone, which was directed by The Nightmare Before Christmas’s Henry Selick. In it, Fraser played a harried cartoonist who meets his most famous creation, Monkeybone (voiced by John Turturro) while in a state of limbo following a car accident. Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan and Rose McGowan co-star.
Before it came out, there were rumors that the studio, 20th Century Fox, had removed much of Selick’s darker material to market the movie as a quasi-family film, which it was never intended to be. It was a box office disaster, only grossing $5.4 million domestically on a then-mammoth $75 million budget. Lucky for Fraser and all involved, it was soon overshadowed by the success of The Mummy Returns, although Fraser would struggle to regain his foothold in comedy, with 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back in Action another pricey flop.
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ShowBiz editor ~ 10/16/2024
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