Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks to return for a new “The Mummy” movie at Universal, TheWrap has learned.
“Scream 6” filmmakers Radio Silence will direct the film. David Coggeshall wrote the screenplay.
Fraser directed the first three films beginning with 1999’s “The Mummy,” 2001’s “The Mummy Returns,” and 2008’s “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.” The films have grossed more than $1.25 billion worldwide. Weisz starred in the first two films.
Franchise veteran Sean Daniel will produce alongside William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein of Project X Entertainment.
The official synopsis for 1999’s “The Mummy” is as follows: The Mummy is a thrilling, suspenseful and terrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara desert in 1925. When they stumble upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly unleash a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, embodied in a time-honored judgment from Egypt, which was embodied in a time-honored judgment. an eternity as one of the living dead.
Radio Silence is represented by Brillstein, CAA and Tara Kole. Fraser is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment and Felker Toczek Suddleson. Weisz is repped by CAA, Independent Talent Group, Linden Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
Universal had no comment.
