Thank the Egyptian gods! A brand new Mummy film starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz is lastly in growth, and it might’t come Anck-soon sufficient.
Unique stars Fraser and Weisz, who starred in The Mummy in 1999 and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, each directed by Stephen Sommers, are in talks to reprise their respective roles as married American adventurer Rick and British Egyptologist Evie O’Connell.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the filmmaking group often known as Radio Silence, are set to direct the forthcoming fourth installment within the fan-favorite supernatural-adventure movie collection primarily based on Common Footage’ basic monster. The duo beforehand directed the critically acclaimed 2019 horror movie Prepared or Not.
Radio Silence additionally directed the fifth and sixth Scream films, which got here out in 2022 and 2023, respectively. The movies had been extremely profitable, so the pair know a factor or two about resurrecting and respiration new life right into a beloved franchise for a brand new technology.
In response to a supply who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter, the mission will function a correct sequel, not a reboot. The supply additionally claims the movie will disregard the occasions of the third movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
Launched in 2008, the third installment in Fraser’s The Mummy collection takes place in Egypt and follows Rick, Evie and their grownup son Alex as they uncover the thriller of the Terracotta Military and battle towards an evil historic warlord often known as the Dragon Emperor. The function of Evie, initially performed by Weisz, was recast with Maria Bello attributable to Weisz having simply given beginning, in addition to her dissatisfaction with the movie’s script.
Tomb of the Dragon Emperor was technically a hit on the field workplace, although it stays the lowest-grossest movie within the collection. The film, which did not seize the magic of the primary two movies and lacked Fraser and Weisz’s palpable on-screen chemistry, acquired unfavourable opinions from critics and longtime followers alike.
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Common tried to revitalize the monster IP in 2017 with The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. The movie, which was initially meant to launch the Darkish Universe, a brand new franchise of recent films primarily based on Common’s basic monsters, carried out nicely on the field workplace however was panned by critics and audiences. In the end, the Darkish Universe was scrapped.
At a fan occasion earlier this 12 months, Fraser speculated that Cruise’s Mummy movie unraveled attributable to its lack of enjoyable.
“I do know Tom Cruise tried to make his film and it ain’t straightforward! Everyone knows how laborious this film is to make. Except for three [The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor], the factor with all of those movies is that, no less than it was enjoyable, it was a thrill trip, and also you needed to do it once more,” the actor shared.
In the meantime, one more reboot primarily based on the basic Mummy character is scheduled to hit theaters in 2026. Directed by Lee Cronin (Evil Lifeless Rise) and produced by Jason Blum and James Wan, The Mummy might be a darkish supernatural horror movie, in addition to the primary Mummy movie to not be distributed by Common Footage because the Hammer Movies collection of the Fifties via Nineteen Seventies.
Cronin’s The Mummy might be launched on April 17, 2026.
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