Fourth “Mummy” movie announced with original cast

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting for another “Mummy” movie.

Filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who call themselves Radio Silence, are set to direct the fourth film.

Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are best known for 2019’s “Ready or Not” and “Scream” for Paramount in 2022.


In 1999, Stephen Sommers wrote and directed a remake of The Mummy, loosely based on the original film of 1932.

This film switches genres from the emphasis on horror to action, concentrating more on adventure sequences, special effects, comedy, and a higher element of Egyptian lore. The film became a box office success spawning two sequels, several video games, a spin-off series, and an animated television series.

The 1999 film introduced Fraser as Rick O’Connell, a roguish American adventurer and former French Foreign Legion soldier, and Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan, an English Egyptologist working at the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. Over the course of the two films, the pair go from reluctant partners to a married couple with a young son, battling ancient curses from the likes of the resurrected Egyptian high priest Imhotep. Weisz’s Evelyn dies in the second film, after discovering she’s the reincarnation of an Egyptian princess, though she’s ultimately revived by Rick.

The first two films received mixed to positive reviews, while the third one received mostly negative reviews.

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