Wait, Is Brendan Fraser Returning for The Mummy 4?
It was rumored that Brendan Fraser would return for The mummy 4 in 2025 after his Oscar win, but are the rumors true?
Brendan Fraser’s The Mummy 4 Rumors Explained
Rumors are swirling on social media that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are about to perform again
their roles as Rick O’Connell and Evelyn Carnahan respectively The mummy 4.
The rumor was accompanied by a supposed poster for the project The Mummy: Fountain of the Persian Knights will be released by Universal in 2025.
The so-called logline promoted a story about Rick O’Connell of Fraser who went in search of his missing son for a “poignant story about family, danger and the unyielding pursuit of hope:”
“Three years after their son goes missing and is believed to have been lost during a dangerous search for the legendary fountain, a glimmer of hope emerges. Rick discovers that their son may still be alive, held captive by evil forces. Join Universal Pictures in 2025 for a moving story of family, danger and the unyielding pursuit of hope.”
The first three films in The mummy franchise was released from 1999 to 2008, but a planned fourth film was dropped in favor of a Tom Cruise-led reboot that hit theaters in 2017.
But unfortunately there are rumors about it The mummy 4 are false, as there is currently no fourth film in development and the franchise is left alone (at least for now).
Will The Mummy 4 ever happen?
The studio had once planned for a fourth film The Mummy: Rise of the Aztecs to bring Brendan Fraser’s Rick O’Connell to South America, with John Hannah also returning, Rob Cohen back in the director’s chair and Antonio Banderas coming on board as the film’s main villain.
Maria Bello, the actress behind Rick’s wife Evelyn Carnahan O’Connell, revealed MTV “[there will] be absolute The mummy 4,” although she didn’t know when that would happen. But unfortunately, that never happened:
‘I don’t know when, but it will happen. [There will] be absolute The mummy 4”, Bello said.
It looked like Universal was lining up Rick’s son, Alex O’Connell, to continue the franchise Bloody disgusting revealed that the actor behind him, Luke Ford, had signed a three-picture deal. This seems to indicate that the studio had planned both a fourth and a fifth film in which Ford would have played a major role.
The film got to the point where a screenplay was commissioned with plans for release The mummy 4 sometime between 2010 and 2011. Instead, as the cinematic universe trend began to take off in Hollywood amid the success of the MCU, Universal began making plans for the Dark Universe and a reboot of The mummy.
Universal had plans for 2017 The mummy to launch the Dark Universe as a shared world of rebooted monster movies. But after that film turned out to be a critical and financial disaster, with the studio losing approximately $95 million, those plans were shelved and the Dark Universe was left dead on arrival.
But could the studio ever revisit the original? Mom franchise? Well, Brendan Fraser is definitely on board, as he said Deadline in January to “sign [him] upwards” to the prospect, largely out of interest in any work:
“It’s been an open question for a while. I’m not against it, I don’t know an actor who doesn’t want a job. I don’t think I’ve been so famous and unpaid.” at the same time in my professional life, so sign me up!”
He told it too Variety last year he “[doesn’t] know how it works but he would be “Open” to revisit the role that made him a Hollywood star “Someone came up with the right conceit.”
Demand for Brendan Fraser projects has never been higher following his Best Actor win The whalethe cancellation of Batgirl (in which he would have played the villain Firefly), and, most recently, Killers of the Flower Moon. As such, there may be no better time for Universal to revisit one of its most iconic roles to date.
Sadly, there are no signs of this happening anytime soon, and Universal will certainly be hesitant to revisit it The mummy in some form after the Dark Universe’s disastrous reboot attempt. But at a time when movies that are decades old are fun Top pistol And Blade Runner have recently received sequels, anything is possible.