Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz to Reunite for New Mummy Movie
The duo behind the most recent 'Scream' movies are set to direct.
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After starring in a pair of films that revived The Mummy for Universal Pictures, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are coming back to the franchise for a new film.
The directing team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, also known as Radio Silence, is on board to helm the new installment after successfully reviving the Scream franchise with 2022’s Scream and its sequel, Scream VI.
Stephen Sommers directed the 1999 iteration of The Mummy, which adopted a more playful, swashbuckling tone than the classic Universal Monster film of its namesake and starred Fraser as treasure hunter Rick O’Connell and Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan, the librarian who gets swept up into Rick’s Indiana Jones-style adventure in 1920s Egypt.
The film went on to become a massive global hit and spawned a sequel, 2001’s The Mummy Returns, which found Fraser and Weisz reprising their roles, now as a married couple, and facing off once again with a resurrected Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo). Though Fraser returned for another sequel, 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Weisz was replaced by Maria Bello.
In 2017, Universal attempted to reboot the franchise again with Tom Cruise in the lead, this time with a larger connected cinematic universe in mind (the ill-fated “Dark Universe”), but the film performed poorly and the entire idea was scrapped.
Though we don’t have any further details about the new film, the original and its sequel are beloved fan favorites and cult classics in their own right, so the hope is that Fraser and Weisz can recapture some of that same magic.
