Acting legends Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will reportedly quickly return to The Mummy franchise for a fourth installment.
According to Varietythe entertainers have signed on for the movie, which shall be directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of Radio Silence Productions. The filmmakers have already got a historical past in horror, having directed the 2019 flick Ready or Not and the 2022 Scream reboot.
Fraser led the 1999 Mummy remake (the unique sequence of six movies ran from 1932 to 1955) as captain Rick O’Connell, whereas Weisz performed British Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan. With The Mummy being a field workplace success, banking $416.4 million within the international field workplace, the Stephen Sommers-directed film was adopted by three extra installments in 2001, 2008 and 2017. The fourth installment is scheduled to premiere subsequent April.
Tom Cruise joined for the poorly-received ‘Dark Universe’ model of The Mummy in 2017, which was directed by Alex Kurtzman, with not one of the unique 1999 solid members returning. Fraser solely returned for two sequels, 2001’s The Mummy Returns and 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperorhowever Weisz would solely be within the former.
During a 2022 interview with VarietyFraser confirmed that he was as much as return to The Mummyhowever urged that its most up-to-date movie was a misstep as a result of it wasn’t amusing.
“It is hard to make that movie,” the Oscar winner advised the publication. “The ingredient that we had going for our ‘Mummy,’ which I didn’t see in the new one, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie. ‘The Mummy’ should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary.”