Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reportedly in talks with film executives to reunite for the next instalment of “The Mummy” franchise.
The information was reported on-line by leisure website Deadline, which stated it had learnt of the possible film from “multiple sources.”
While the plan has not been formally confirmed, the positioning reported that the next instalment will probably be written by David Coggeshall, whose earlier credit embrace “The Family Plan” and “The Deliverance.”
Coggeshall appeared to verify the information on social media, tweeting out the Deadline article with the remark: “Cat’s out of the bag, I guess :)”
Fraser and Weisz starred in the unique, 1999 movie “The Mummy.” The film’s huge success gave an enormous enhance to the careers of the younger actors, who at the moment are in their mid-50s. Both have since gone on to win Oscars — Weisz in 2006 for her supporting function in “The Constant Gardener” and Fraser in 2023 for his efficiency in “The Whale.”
The pair appeared collectively in the 2001 sequel, “The Mummy Returns,” whereas Fraser returned alone in 2008 for “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” following the loss of life of Weisz’s character in the second film. Neither was concerned in the poorly obtained 2017 reboot of the franchise starring Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe.
It is unclear the place Weisz’s character, English Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan, would match in to the next chapter, on condition that she was killed off in the 2001 sequel. But again in 2022, Fraser advised Variety that he was not averse to reprising his function as American adventurer Rick O’Connell.
“I don’t know how it would work,” Fraser advised Variety. “But I’d be open to it if someone came up with the right conceit.”
NCS has reached out to representatives of Fraser and Weisz. Universal Pictures didn’t reply to a request for remark.