The Mummy...the real The Mummy actually returns!

[Caliburn]

There are plans in the works for a 4th installment in the '90-'00 era The Mummy-series...with Brendan Fraser AND Rachel Weisz! *fangirl squeaks*

Universal Pictures is returning to one of its most beloved action-adventure franchises, with Brendan Fraser and in discussions to return for a new Mummy movie, presumably reprising their roles from the studio’s Mummyfilms of the ’90s and 2000s, multiple sources tell Deadline.

Reps for Universal Pictures declined to comment, and plot details for the new film are under wraps. But we hear Radio Silence‘s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will direct from a script by David Coggeshall (The Family Plan films, The Deliverance), with franchise veteran Sean Daniel to produce alongside William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein of Project X Entertainment.

The project reunites Radio Silence and Project X following their recent work together rebooting the Scream franchise with films up to, but not including, next year’s Scream 7, which Radio Silence did not direct, but which Project X did produce. Project X most recently teamed with Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett on Ready or Not: Here I Come, a horror sequel for Searchlight Pictures.

Previously, Fraser and Weisz starred in two Mummy movies together: 1999’s The Mummy and 2001’s The Mummy Returns, both based on one of Universal’s original movie monsters of the early 20th century, both directed by Stephen Sommers, and both grossing over $400 million worldwide. The 1999 film introduced Fraser as Rick O’Connell, a roguish American adventurer and former French Foreign Legion soldier, and Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan, an English Egyptologist working at the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. Over the course of the two films, the pair go from reluctant partners to a married couple with a young son, battling ancient curses from the likes of the resurrected Egyptian high priest Imhotep. Weisz’s Evelyn dies in the second film, after discovering she’s the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess, though she’s ultimately revived by Rick.

Contributing to Fraser’s rise as one of the biggest stars of the late ’90s and early 2000s, these particular Mummy films were so popular they were spun off into famed attractions for Universal parks in Hollywood, Orlando, FL and Singapore. The franchise continued with 2002’s spinoff The Scorpion King, starring Dwayne Johnson, which grossed over $180 million worldwide, as well as 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ($403 million global), where Fraser returned without Weisz under the direction of Rob Cohen.

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[The Big Boss]

Imotep should return.

 

[Avani]

There are plans in the works for a 4th installment in the '90-'00 era The Mummy-series...with Brendan Fraser AND Rachel Weisz! *fangirl squeaks

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He looks more fit for another role...
Fangirl in me is skeptic on how it is going to be played.. Those actors have aged...

 

[Caliburn]

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He looks more fit for another role...
Fangirl in me is skeptic on how it is going to be played.. Those actors have aged...

Still better than Tom Cruise.

Come on Brendan, you can do it buddy.

 

[MAN OF SIN]

Technically that isn’t the “real” Mummy since the first film was a remake of The Mummy movie from the 1930s.

 

[Caliburn]

Technically that isn’t the “real” Mummy since the first film was a remake of The Mummy movie from the 1930s.

Unwritten rule #29 of Hollywood:

If all people who worked on a movie have died; a remake of the movie is not considered a remake, but a genuine original movie in its own right, unless it is garbage, in which case it's a garbage remake that must be treated with the utmost disdain.