‘The Mummy’ To Rise a Fourth Time, With ‘Ready or Not’ Filmmakers and Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz

Just like its titular character, the movie franchise based on 1999’s The Mummy will rise from the dead.
The Hollywood trade papers reported today that Radio Silence, the duo of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have or will sign on to direct a fourth installment of the Mummy series, which will be written by David Coggeshall. And the dream team of Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will return to reprise their roles as explorer Rick O’Connell and his Egyptologist wife Evelyn Carnahan.
Weisz appeared in the first Mummy sequel, The Mummy Returns in 2001, but dropped out of the third sequel, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008. For that film, the role of Evelyn was recast with Maria Bello. The series also featured a prequel that neither Fraser nor Weisz appeared in: The Scorpion King, which starred Dwayne Johnson.
Together, the four films have earned close to a billion dollars at the worldwide box office; even more when you factor in the Universal theme park attractions and video games.
Tom Cruise led a reboot of The Mummy in 2017 for Universal’s Dark Universe project that would revive all of its classic movie monsters with new stories told from a modern perspective. That film was critically panned even if it wasn’t a financial flop.
Radio Silence produced Ready or Not and were the team behind the rebooted Scream series. They will also helm the Ready or Not sequel, Here I Come.
It is not known if any of the cast from the previous Mummy movies will appear in this sequel. Plot details and a potential release date have not been revealed, and a spokesperson for Universal had no comment on the news.


