Announced earlier this month, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are set to return in The Mummy 4.
Fraser has opened up about reprising his iconic role as Rick O’Connell in a conversation with AP.
“The one I wanted to make was never made,” he confesses.
Fraser says of the third installment, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, “NBC had the rights to broadcast the Olympics that year. So they put two together and we went to China. Working in Shanghai, an incredible experience. I’m proud of the third one because I think it’s a good standalone movie. We picked up and did what we do with a different crew on deck and gave it our best shot.”
He continues, “But the one I wanted to make is forthcoming. And I’ve been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It’s time to give the fans what they want.”
Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (Scream, Ready or Not) will direct the fourth installment in the action-adventure-horror franchise from a script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill).
Sources suggest the project is not a reboot, but rather a sequel that would disregard the events of the third movie.
A remake of the classic Universal monster movie, The Mummy was released in 1999 and grossed $422.5 million worldwide. It was followed by The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008.
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