Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Will Return for The Mummy 4

Oscar winners Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reportedly reuniting for The Mummy 4 with Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett – the filmmaking duo billed as Radio Silence – directing the long-awaited sequel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fraser and Weisz are in talks to return to the franchise that made them box office stars before they both went on to win their respective Academy Awards (Fraser for The Whale and Weisz for The Constant Gardener).

Weisz sat out the third installment of the franchise, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, where her character, Egyptologist Eveleyn O’Connell, was replaced by Maria Bello.

That sequel also aged up Rick and Evy’s son Alex, who was introduced as a kid in The Mummy Returns, to be a young man.

“It is unclear who else [from the original cast] 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,” THR reports.

Radio Silence’s breakout film was 2019’s Ready or Not. They then rebooted the Scream franchise with 2022’s Scream and 2023’s Scream 6, and also directed the vampire flick Abigail.

The Mummy 4 will be produced by the franchise’s original producer, Sean Daniel, and Project X Entertainment’s William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein.

Universal Pictures previously tried to reboot The Mummy franchise – with the 1999 film already a remake of the 1932 original – in 2017 with the Tom Cruise-led The Mummy, which failed to breathe life into the studio’s plans for Dark Universe, a shared universe that reimagined the classic Universal Monsters.

The studio also released the Dwayne Johnson spin-off vehicle The Scorpion King, which beget its own direct-to-video film series.

Curiously, director Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is produced by New Line Cinema, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster and will be released in theaters by Warner Bros. on April 17, 2026. It was made outside of the Universal franchise and there were rumors earlier this week that Warner Bros. has now retitled the film The Resurrected, which would put an end to any confusion with Universal’s franchise.

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