The Mummy series is reportedly returning for a fourth film, with the team behind the recent Scream films set to direct.
Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser starred in the hit action-adventure films during the late nineties and early 2000s – and now they’re said to be reuniting.
Filmmaking duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who make up the collective Radio Silence, are well known for Ready or Not in 2019 and the revival of the Scream films for Paramount in 2022.
And now they’re taking on a new beloved film franchise. Variety reports that they’re down to direct a new sequel for The Mummy, with the original stars, Fraser and Weisz reportedly reuniting too.
The 1999 reboot of The Mummy was a box office hit.
In it, a cursed Egyptian priest with supernatural powers was accidentally awoken by a treasure hunter, played by Fraser.
At the time, the film grossed over $422.5 million (£324.5 million).
Fraser continued with two more films, while Weisz just did the 2001 film, The Mummy Returns. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor came out in 2008.
Stephen Sommers directed and co-wrote the 1999 original film, bringing an element of Indiana Jones to the Universal classic.
It’s unclear who else could return in the franchise.
Original producer, Sean Daniel, will be back alongside other regular collaborators with Radio Silence, including Paul Neinstein, William Sherak and James Vanderbilt.
In 2017, Universal attempted to resurrect the franchise with Tom Cruise, but it wasn’t a commercial success.
Speaking about the 2017 film, Fraser said to Variety: ‘The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn’t see in the new one, was fun.’
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a source said this project won’t be a reboot, but a sequel, disregarding the events of the third film. And it’s been written by David Coggeshall.
Metro has contacted Universal, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz for comment.
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