The Mummy followers are actually wanting ahead to Brendan Fraser returning to the franchise for a possible fourth movie.
On Tuesday, November 4, Variety revealed that Fraser, 56, and costar Rachel Weisz are in talks to presumably reunite for the film. The fourth The Mummy will probably be directed by filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who're finest identified for reviving the Scream franchise in 2022.
Whereas Fraser and Weisz, 55, have but to interrupt their silence on the information, followers of the beloved franchise have taken to social media to share their pleasure.
“I can't let you know how a lot this implies,” one consumer wrote through X. “That is like your divorced dad and mom getting again collectively and it being simply pretty much as good as you keep in mind. Oh my god.”
Brendan Fraser was one of many greatest motion stars of the '90s and early '00s, however he later receded from the general public eye — leaving followers eagerly awaiting his comeback. The Indiana native made his movie debut in 1991's Dogfight, one yr earlier than Encino Man and Faculty Ties turned him right into a heartthrob. The latter […]
Different customers couldn't assist however gush about how lengthy they've been ready for the film to make a comeback.
“Wow it's truly occurring. Undoubtedly love seeing Fraser re-enter the blockbuster house amidst his renaissance,” one account shared. “I'm seated. The theater staff are scared and asking me to go away as a result of it ‘hasn't even began filming but' however I'm just too seated.”
Based mostly on the unique 1932 movie, the 1999 remake — directed by Stephen Sommers — adopted adventurer and treasure hunter Rick O'Connell (Fraser) as he travels to Hamunaptra, the Metropolis of the Lifeless, with librarian Evelyn Carnahan (Weisz) and Carnahan's older brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). The franchise made two sequels in 2001 and 2008.
Almost a decade after The Mummy 3, Tom Cruise made a 2017 adaptation of the movie with a model new story — however it didn't end up as profitable as the unique franchise.
“It's onerous to make that film,” Fraser advised Variety in an October 2022 interview. “The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn't see in that movie, was enjoyable.”
A low-key love story! Brendan Fraser and girlfriend Jeanne Moore have stored their romance comparatively out of the highlight. The twosome made their first public look as a pair on the Venice Movie Pageant in September 2022, the place Fraser and members of The Whale solid acquired a six-minute standing ovation after a screening of the […]
Fraser famous that that's what was “missing” in Cruise's model of the film.
“It was an excessive amount of of a straight-ahead horror film,” he defined to the outlet. “The Mummy ought to be a thrill experience, however not terrifying and scary. I understand how troublesome it's to tug it off. I attempted to do it 3 times.”
In the meantime, Weisz has additionally spoken extremely about her expertise on The Mummy franchise, noting that it was “very, very joyful.”
“It was not a heavy going set,” she recalled in an interview with Newsweek in April 2024. “Brendan and John are each simply actually attractive and open-hearted folks. I believe we had actually good chemistry. We actually obtained on and everybody threw their coronary heart and soul into it.”
Weisz went on to share that she was drawn to the position of Evelyn in The Mummy as a result of “quite a lot of the ladies's elements weren't very fascinating” within the 90s.
“[Evelyn] was only a very uncommon feminine character,” she advised the outlet. “She was a librarian, and he or she was in the midst of this motion film. She was humorous and form of mischievous and sincere.”
