Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will return for The Mummy 4 in 2028
‘90s and 2000s babies will be glad to hear that Deadline has confirmed original The Mummy stars Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will return as the iconic onscreen couple Rick and Evie O’Connell, the adventurer and archaeologist duo who take down cursed, resurrected priests from Egypt.
The Mummy was released in 1999 and was directed by Stephen Sommers, with additional cast members including John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O’Connor, Oded Fehr and Patricia Velásquez. Mixed-to-positive reviews and box office success ($422.5 million from a $80 million budget) welcomed a sequel in 2001, with most of the original cast returning. A third film set around China followed in 2008, with Weisz being replaced by Mario Bello in the role of Evie.
An attempted reboot was released in 2017, directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella. Despite debuting as the first in a planned cinematic universe titled the Dark Universe, based on the classic Universal Monsters, poor reviews and box-office performance led to the plan being dropped.
The untitled fourth Mummy film in the 1999 canon will be directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, known for their horror films (v/h/s, Ready or Not, Scream VI) and their production company Radio Silence Productions. Orphan: First Kill’s screenwriter, David Coggeshall, has penned the script, and William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein are teaming up with Project X Entertainment to produce the sequel.
The release date has been confirmed as 19th May, 2028.
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