Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, the OG lead pair of The Mummy franchise, will return to the movie sequence in The Mummy 4, Selection has reported.
In keeping with the outlet, the filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are set to direct the fourth instalment within the decades-old motion franchise. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are finest identified for 2019’s Prepared or Not and reviving the Scream franchise for Paramount in 2022.
Followers have reacted with euphoria for the return of the franchise’s unique lead pair, who final appeared in a Mummy movie collectively 24 years in the past.
About The Mummy movies
The 1999 reboot of The Mummy starred Brendan Fraser as a treasure hunter in Nineteen Thirties Egypt who helps an archaeologist (performed by Rachel Weisz) after a cursed Egyptian priest with supernatural powers reincarnates to take over the world.
The movie helped set up the 2 actors as bankable stars in Hollywood, and was adopted by a a sequel referred to as The Mummy Returns in 2001. Within the third movie – The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) – Rachel Weisz didn’t return.
Common Studios tried to revive the franchise with Tom Cruise in 2017, however the effort was unsuccessful. The Mummy was a business misfire and did not kick off the studio’s so-called Darkish Universe.
Brendan Fraser has seen a revival of his profession in the previous few years with the 2021 launch, No Sudden Transfer, and culminating with an Oscar-winning efficiency within the 2022 movie, The Whale. He has since appeared in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Max Barbakow’s Brothers.
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz’s careers
Fraser was most not too long ago seen within the Japanese movie Rental Household, which had its world premiere in the course of the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition. Directed by Hikari, the movie additionally stars Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, and Akira Emoto.
Rachel Weisz has additionally had a profitable profession since starring in The Mummy movies, successful an Oscar for The Fixed Gardener and extra not too long ago, a BAFTA Award for The Favorite. Her most up-to-date movie function was as Melina Vostokoff in Marvel’s Black Widow. She additionally starred within the Amazon Prime Video present, Lifeless Ringers, in 2023.