Bredan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are getting back into the mummy hunting business.
The pair who starred in 199’s The Mummy and its 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns, are reportedly in talks to return to the franchise in a new installment at Universal Studios. This will be the fifth big screen installment of the franchise. Fraser starred in a third Mummy film – 2008’s Tomb Of The Dragon – though Weisz declined to return. A 2002 theatrical spinoff, The Scorpion King, was an early starring role for Dwayne Johnson, and lead to four direct-to-video sequels.
The film is set to be directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, better known under the collective name of Radio Silence. David Coggeshall, who co-wrote Tomb Of The Dragon, has written the screenplay for this new installment. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that this new film will ignore that third film.
There is no word as to whether any other characters from the franchise, such as John Hannah’s Jonathan Carnahan or Arnold Vosloo’s Imhotep.
Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are a good choice for to revitalize this iteration of Universal’s Mummy franchise. The pair did similar work on the Scream franchise, relaunching that with Scream 5 and Scream 6 in 2022 and 2023. They have also successfully blended horror and action in 2018’s Ready Or Not and last year’s Abigail. Next April will see the release of the Ready Or Not sequel, Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come.
