{"id":32366,"date":"2025-11-21T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=32366"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T20:04:43","slug":"brendan-fraser-unpdates-mummy4-waiting-20-years-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=32366","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser Updates &#8216;Mummy 4&#8217; : Waiting 20 Years to Make"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>\u00a9<\/b>Universal Pictures\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>It was recently announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000409\/\">Brendan Fraser<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001838\/\">Rachel Weisz<\/a> will be reprising their roles in an upcoming new film in Universal\u2019s <em><strong>The Mummy<\/strong><\/em> franchise. Fraser will play Rick O\u2019Connell, a former French Foreign Legion soldier while Weisz will once again be playing Evelyn Carnahan, a British Egyptologist.<br \/><br \/>The two actors starred in the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120616\"><em><strong>Mummy<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>movie, which was released in 1999, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0209163\/\"><em><strong>The Mummy Returns<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which debuted two years later. In 2008, Fraser also appeared in the third film, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0859163\/\"><em><strong>The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, which was set in China.<br \/>This week, while promoting his latest film, <em><strong>Rental Family<\/strong><\/em>, Fraser expressed his satisfaction about the new Mummy sequel. <br \/><br \/>He was quoted by AP News as saying: \u201cThe [sequel] I wanted to make was never made. \u2026 But the one I wanted to make is forthcoming. And I\u2019ve been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It\u2019s time to give the fans what they want.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Fraser told <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brendan-fraser-rental-family-interview-1d3895901593b28eccd6547be8ffbfcc\">AP<\/a> that <em><strong>Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/strong><\/em> was an attempt by producers to capitalize on the publicity boost offered by the Summer Olympics in Beijing that year.<br \/>\u201cNBC had the rights to broadcast the Olympics that year,\u201d explained Fraser. \u201cSo they put two together and we went to China. Working in Shanghai, an incredible experience. I\u2019m proud of the third one because I think it\u2019s a good standalone movie. We picked up and did what we do with a different crew on deck and gave it our best shot.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The upcoming sequel will be directed by <em><strong>Radio Silence<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2366012\/\"> Matt Bettinelli-Olpin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2419470\/\">Tyler Gillett<\/a> from a script by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1548597\/\">David Coggeshall<\/a>, who wrote <em><strong>The Family Plan<\/strong><\/em> films as well as The <em><strong>Deliverance<\/strong><\/em>. Producers will include Sean Daniel, William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein of Project X Entertainment.<br \/><br \/>The original two films in <strong>The Mummy<\/strong> franchise were directed by Stephen Sommers. They grossed more than $400 million at the global box office.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out other articles by Edward.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Universal Pictures\u00a0 It was recently announced that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will be reprising their roles in an upcoming new film in Universal\u2019s The Mummy franchise. Fraser will play Rick O\u2019Connell, a former French Foreign Legion soldier while Weisz will once again be playing Evelyn Carnahan, a British Egyptologist. 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