- The Academy Award-winning Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in active discussions to return for another Mummy film (possibly titled The Mummy 4).
- This action-adventure saga continuation will be helmed by Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett) of Ready or Not and Scream revival fame.
- The Mummy 4 release date: TBA.
Universal is bringing a beloved franchise back from the dead as Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz enter negotiations to star in a new Mummy sequel directed by Radio Silence โ the filmmaking duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who you may know for Ready or Not and, more recently, the Scream revival movies.
Currently, further casting and story details remain unclear โ as well as whether this follow-up instalment will indeed be titled The Mummy 4 โ though we do know that veteran producer Sean Daniel has already signed on to return. Daniel, who had a hand in the original Stephen Sommers trilogy(1999-2008) alongside late partner James Jack, joins โfrequent Radio Silence collaboratorsโ William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein via Project X Entertainment.
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We also know the screenplay has already been accomplished by David Coggeshall (Prey, The Family Plan).
Between Darren Aronofskyโs The Whale โ the one that earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor โ Martin Scorseseโs Killers of the Flower Moon, and in a matter of weeks, A24 dramedy Rental Family (which has already dazzled critics at the festival circuit), the โBrennaissanceโ has been in full steady swing.
And at this stage, the only way to make his comeback story even greater would be to give the people what theyโve been asking for since 2008 with The Mummy 4 (or its spiritual equivalent).
โI donโt know how it would work,โ Fraser, who portrayed heroic former French Foreign Legion captain turned adventurer and archaeologist Rick OโConnell, told Variety back in 2022.
โBut Iโd be open to it if someone came up with the right conceit.โ
As you may recall, in an attempt to cash in on the Indiana Jones-esque magic of The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor featuring Jet Li (and Maria Bello in place of Rachel Weisz), Universal disastrously rebooted the franchise in 2017 with a feature-length project starring Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, and Sofia Boutella.
Not only would the latter go down in history as an epic box office bomb, losing around $100 million despite grossing $410 million globally due to high production and marketing costs, itโd also force the studio to scrap what itโd intended to become an MCU-style interconnected โDark Universe.โ
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When prompted about why he thought the critically derided action-adventure affair did so poorly, Fraser pointed out the crucial element that was missing: โIt is hard to make that movie. The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didnโt see in that film, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie.โ
โThe Mummy should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary. I know how difficult it is to pull it off. I tried to do it three times.โ
Standby for key updates on The Mummy sequel with Radio Silence starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz (release date, plot, casting, trailer, news, etc.).
