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Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reportedly in talks to return to The Mummy franchise
Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who made the Scream reboots and Ready or Not, are expected to direct
Fraser and Weisz shared the screen in two Mummy movies, released in 1999 and 2001
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting to dust off their blockbuster Mummy movies.
The former costars are in talks to reprise their roles in another installment of the Universal Pictures monster franchise, according to Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter.
Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are reportedly expected to direct the movie. They previously directed recent horror films like Ready or Not, the Scream reboots and Abigail. Plot details and a potential release date have not been revealed.
A spokesperson for Universal had no comment.
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Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in “The Mummy Returns” (2001)
Fraser, 56, and Weisz, 55, first starred as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell in 1999’s The Mummy, directed by Stephen Sommers. Then came 2001’s The Mummy Returns (which featured Dwayne Johnson’s acting debut). For a 2008 sequel, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Fraser returned, though Evelyn was recast with Maria Bello.
Tom Cruise led a reboot of The Mummy in 2017, though it ultimately didn’t connect at the box office.
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Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser in “The Mummy” (1999)
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In 2022, Fraser, who won his first Oscar in 2023 for The Whale, told Variety that he thought Cruise’s The Mummy was “too much of a straight-ahead horror movie.” He added at the time, “The 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.”
Weisz told Net-a-Porter in 2023 that she didn’t expect The Mummy to continue to be popular among fans over 20 years later.
“It’s beloved to me too. I feel very much the same. When we were making it, we had no idea — we didn’t know if it was going to even sell tickets,” she said at the time. “Everybody in The Mummy was just brilliant, and it was just some alchemical thing in it, that it had charm, and charm is such a strange thing. It’s either there or it isn’t.”
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