Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz returning for 'The Mummy 4'
 

Sources are saying that both Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, who declined to come back for the third film, are both in talks to return a fourth installment. It will be directed by Raddio Silence's Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet. Fraser's career has gotten a revival thanks to his Oscar win. Weisz must like the script for this one if all goes well.

https://deadline.com/2025/11/new-mum...ce-1236606781/

Well, why not.

This must be the most confusing IP to follow. The generic title not only makes me forget that the Brendan Fraser mummy movies are meant to be the same franchise as the Boris Karloff ones but also the Tom Cruise one, just different continuities. There is also an upcoming Mummy movie by New Line, which isn't this one but Wikipedia alleges is part of the Universal Mummy franchise. So there's going to be two upcoming movies in the same franchise but in different continuities around the same time? Weird.

On a side note, I know Universal also tends to lump all their monster movies into a single franchise as well, I just keep forgetting that too. It's kind of hard for me to keep that in mind when nearly all of them are based on public domain characters and the few who aren't are painfully generic. The Wolfman movies pretty much plays into every werewolf cliché you can imagine, I literally cannot think of anything about the Wolfman movies that stick out from any other werewolf movie.

They could bring back most of the cast, if they wanted to. Evee's brother, Anucksonnamoon, Imhotep himself, the desert guy.

Definitely down. The "biggest" question, though, is... can Fraser get back into Mummy shape?

It's not that hard. There was The Mummy in 1999 and The Mummy Returns in 2001, The Mummy 3 in 2008, then a bunch of nothing, then a bunch of bullsh**, and then The Mummy 4 in 2027 (or so).

So do you include the 30's/40's movies with "a bunch of bullsh**"?

Why would you think the 30s/40s movies would go between 2008 and 2027?

The last pic of Brendan Fraser I saw and he looked hideous. Man, he is going to really have to get back into shape. And if he doesn't have that old hairstyle anymore so he won't even look the same.

And this is after he lost a bunch of weight:

https://i.ibb.co/ymBC9wzP/ece5492f92...32f9a1da8f.jpg

God he looks like Frankenstein. It looks like they brought him back for the wrong monster movie! He should of played Frakenstein instead.

No, I wouldn't, I just meant that you made it seem like it starts with the Fraser movies. My original point was more so that the franchise has technically been going for 93 years, even if they only share the base concept of "a mummy comes to life" and that said base concept is so generic it's easy to forget that this is all meant to be one franchise, rather than just a bunch of unrelated movies that happen to have undead mummies in them. For example, that upcoming New Line movie I mentioned that is going to be released in parallel with this one, it's allegedly part of this franchise but in a different continuity, to which my reaction is "Why would it be? It's a different studio and I don't see any evidence that they're going to take character names or anything else from previous movies, I don't even think the title can be trademarked.".

Whenever someone tells me that the Boris Karloff Mummy and the Brendan Fraser Mummy are technically part of the same franchise as well as the Tom Cruise Mummy, I'm like "Oh yeah, I guess...". It's not so much that the trilogy of Brendan Fraser movies are hard to keep track of as their own thing or anything like that, it's more just the idea that Universal thinks it's worth classifying every movie they make featuring an undead mummy to be part of the same franchise or that New Line (allegedly) felt the need to even bother licensing the concept of an undead mummy movie. In all but the official statements from Universal, these are all basically a bunch of unrelated movies building on the same generic idea that a million other movies uses. The only concrete thing binding these movies together other than Universal and the title is said concept, under the same logic WB might as well classify Ready Player One and the Matrix as being part of the same franchise.

The one from 1999 is a vague remake of the one from 1932. That's it. Not a big deal, no one is puzzling over it.

I've never seen any mummy movie, not the 2000s ones, not the black and white ones or any. I remember The Scorpion King spin off being promoted when I used to watch WWF and looking at wikipedia it seems the scorpion king has like 5 movies and they're all prequels to the prequel or sequels to the prequel of the prequel, it seems rather confusing.

It's always funny when you check a random movie on wikipedia and you see they had like 10 sequels made for direct to dvd. I wonder who was buying those, obviously someone had to.

And they recast the Scorpion King like 3 times in them, lol... it's just too much for me.

It's also strange that in all of those million Scorpion King movies they never really gave people the one thing they wanted to see in the original Scorpion King movie: what led up to the events with him in the of the opening of The Mummy Returns. Where he's kind of evil and a conqueror.

The Scorpion King, the one with The Rock, aired so often on Portuguese TV back in the 2000s and early 2010s. It's probably the most often aired movie on TV here alongside Jackie Chan movies and, of course, the most popular Portuguese movies.

...yet, I've never seen it. :lol: I doubt I'm missing out on much. I liked The Rock in The Rundown, but Doom was lousy and so was Planet 51. Red Notice also wasn't anything special other than Gal Gadot being very easy on the eyes.

Honestly, it's quite disappointing how boring of an actor The Rock is compared to his wrestling character. Batista is a much better actor than The Rock is.

And I remember hearing this on the radio all the time back then:

One of the most depressing things about the current world we live in is how rock and metal lost so much mainstream popularity and every popular song nowadays sounds like the same generic and sterile pop/rnb/hip-hop track.

I think we just got too much of it too quickly back then. It was all over everything, every commercial, trailer, movie soundtrack, turn on the radio and it's the same Nickelback or Linkin Park song. And all the singers kind of looked alike, too, lol.

And now it's different? Especially in the social media and algorithm based era where it's a lot easier for songs to go viral than ever? How come people aren't tired of all the sterile pop/rnb/hiphop hits yet?

I wonder if it’ll be the Mayan story they drafted way back in the day

https://i.ibb.co/Y7GFwpHr/FB-IMG-1762463282054.jpg

I guess they kind of need to bring the son back from Mummy 3, right? But would they bring back Luke Ford? The guy is like 45 years old now. I mean, he was already too old for the role 20 years ago THEN but now?

And if I recall he's the reason Weisz turned down Mummy 3 -- because it'd mean it would make it like she was old enough to have a 25 year-old son and she didn't like that.

Something tells me the inclination will be to make this a big all-around reunion. That'll mean Imhotep. Though who knows, maybe Imhotep could come back as an ally in this one against some new threat.