Somebody rouse the Bembridge scholars!
Well, this is interesting. Fraser and Weisz are both well-respected Oscar-winners now, and Fraser has been open about all the physical hardships he endured doing his run of action movies in the 2000s, so I'd both think and hope that they'd only consider returning for a genuinely good, polished script. I haven't seen anything David Coggeshall has written, which seems to be mainly horror. I'm not a particular horror fan, but leaning in that direction could be a good way to limit the action/stunts/budgetary demands.
Regarding the rest of the classic cast, I'd certainly hope for at least an appearance by John Hannah, even if he didn't join Rick and Evy on the main adventure. I'd also like to get at least a cameo by Freddie Boath, who played Alex O'Connell in The Mummy Returns, and left acting over a decade ago to work in advertising. As for Arnold Vosloo and Oded Fehr, that would depend on the story. My inclination would be to not involve Imhotep at all, and very possibly not even do an Egypt-based tale, so while I like both actors and their characters, I could easily picture neither taking part.
As for the prospect of a third Mummy movie at all (Obi-Wan: "That business in China... that doesn't, doesn't count"), I'm hesitant. The Mummy is one of my very favorite flicks, and there's stuff I like in Returns, but also stuff I despise. I'd love to see Fraser and Weisz share the screen again, but I'd be just or almost excited to see them do an original flick in a whole other genre. That said, there is a heavy streak of horror in the '99 classic, so if the script were strong enough, I could picture a more horror-focused follow-up than the more generic action-y '00s sequels working. I've just been burned on far too many mediocre-to-bad legacy sequels featuring classic characters, from Picard to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny to Terminator: Dark Fate to the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Jurassic World: Dominion, to get all that jazzed up front.
We'll see...
Brendan Fraser, who led the trio of movies made between 1999 and 2008, and Rachel Weisz, who starred in the first two, are in talks to star in a new Mummy sequel.
Radio Silence is set to direct. The filmmaking team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett broke through with the clever and fun horror movie Ready or Not in 2019 and are known for helping revitalize the Scream franchise with a pair of movies in 2022 and 2023.
[...] It is unclear who else could return. One source describes the project as not a reboot, but rather a sequel that would disregard the events of the third movie. David Coggeshall wrote the screenplay.
Well, this is interesting. Fraser and Weisz are both well-respected Oscar-winners now, and Fraser has been open about all the physical hardships he endured doing his run of action movies in the 2000s, so I'd both think and hope that they'd only consider returning for a genuinely good, polished script. I haven't seen anything David Coggeshall has written, which seems to be mainly horror. I'm not a particular horror fan, but leaning in that direction could be a good way to limit the action/stunts/budgetary demands.
Regarding the rest of the classic cast, I'd certainly hope for at least an appearance by John Hannah, even if he didn't join Rick and Evy on the main adventure. I'd also like to get at least a cameo by Freddie Boath, who played Alex O'Connell in The Mummy Returns, and left acting over a decade ago to work in advertising. As for Arnold Vosloo and Oded Fehr, that would depend on the story. My inclination would be to not involve Imhotep at all, and very possibly not even do an Egypt-based tale, so while I like both actors and their characters, I could easily picture neither taking part.
As for the prospect of a third Mummy movie at all (Obi-Wan: "That business in China... that doesn't, doesn't count"), I'm hesitant. The Mummy is one of my very favorite flicks, and there's stuff I like in Returns, but also stuff I despise. I'd love to see Fraser and Weisz share the screen again, but I'd be just or almost excited to see them do an original flick in a whole other genre. That said, there is a heavy streak of horror in the '99 classic, so if the script were strong enough, I could picture a more horror-focused follow-up than the more generic action-y '00s sequels working. I've just been burned on far too many mediocre-to-bad legacy sequels featuring classic characters, from Picard to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny to Terminator: Dark Fate to the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy and Jurassic World: Dominion, to get all that jazzed up front.
We'll see...
