Rick O’Connell and Evy Carnahan’s return is true across the nook as The Mummy 4 has landed a launch date.
Having first introduced new life to the franchise with the 1999 movie, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz’s Mummy trilogy stays a fan-favorite over 20 years later, and helped reignite curiosity in Common Traditional Monsters, with director Stephen Sommers occurring to helm the Hugh Jackman-led Van Helsing. After its third installment underperformed, Common later rebooted the franchise with the Tom Cruise-led film, although its failure ultimately noticed the studio flip their eyes to each a standalone reboot and a fourth film with Fraser and Weisz.
Now, per Selection, Common Photos has set The Mummy 4 for a 2028 launch date. The movie, which is bringing again Brendan Fraser as Rick and Rachel Weisz as Evy, is about to hit theaters on Might 19, 2028.
The unique announcement of The Mummy 4 with Fraser and Weisz got here as fairly a shock as it got here amid the lead-up to the discharge of Blumhouse’s reboot from Evil Lifeless Rise‘s Lee Cronin at New Line Cinema. Nonetheless, the brand new launch date additionally marks the primary time Fraser and Weisz’s involvement has been confirmed by Common, with the previous continuously taking part in coy throughout his promotion tour for Rental Household, whereas additionally expressing his hopes for it to be made.
Very similar to Fraser’s prior flip as Rick in The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the subsequent Mummy film could have a brand new artistic group on the helm. Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, finest identified for serving to revive the Scream franchise with its fifth and sixth installments, and the Prepared or Not sequence, are directing the long-awaited sequel, whereas The Household Plan and Orphan: First Kill‘s David Coggeshall has penned the script.
With a Might 2028 launch date set, The Mummy 4 is definitely going to be returning simply in time for the 20-year mark of when Fraser and Weisz’s trilogy was final seen on display. Extra notably, it additionally offers the film a leg up on a key nook within the early summer season field workplace contest, as the one different scheduled launch that month is an unspecified Marvel Studios launch.
Contemplating the unique movie grew to become a field workplace sensation with its Might 1999 launch, Common is already organising The Mummy 4 to be one other hit. Moreover, with over two years to go till Fraser and Weisz’s long-awaited return hits theaters, the artistic group could have greater than sufficient time to refine each facet, from the script to visible results, to make it a worthy outing for longtime followers of the sequence.
- Created by
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Stephen Sommers, Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer
- First Movie
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The Mummy (1932)
- First Episode Air Date
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September 29, 2001
The Mummy franchise is a sequence of movies and media centered round resurrected mummies and the adventurers who fight them. The franchise started with the unique The Mummy movie in 1932, but it surely was the 1999 reboot directed by Stephen Sommers that rejuvenated the sequence, mixing motion, journey, and horror with a heavy dose of particular results. This model starred Brendan Fraser because the heroic Rick O’Connell and Arnold Vosloo because the reanimated mummy, Imhotep. The success of the 1999 movie spawned two sequels, a spin-off sequence (The Scorpion King), and a 2017 reboot supposed to launch Common’s Darkish Universe, although it did not ignite the supposed franchise.