MUMMY 4 Brings Back Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser

[AndyDursin]

Theyre going to pretend MUMMY 3 and the Tom Cruise dud didnt happen...and after WOLFMAN this is a smart idea as opposed to another sad sack reboot.

[AndyDursin]

Is the first time someone went back and made a sequel to a movie after its series had been "rebooted"? Probably not but its pretty rare...

[John Johnson]

I'm ready.

[Monterey Jack]

Is the first time someone went back and made a sequel to a movie after its series had been "rebooted"? Probably not but its pretty rare...

The Halloween series has done it at least twice.

[AndyDursin]

Thats true. But excepting low budget horror....

[Paul MacLean]

Is Weisz playing the mummy? She’s old enough by now.

[AndyDursin]

Is she still married to Craig? She probably wants to get out of the house at this point.

[Monterey Jack]

Is Weisz playing the mummy? She’s old enough by now.

She'd be a yummy mummy...

[Eric W.]

Yay another way after the fact too late sequel!

[Paul MacLean]

Is she still married to Craig? She probably wants to get out of the house at this point.

I suspect they live very separate lives.

https://www.out.com/celebs/2021/10/13/d ... etero-bars

[AndyDursin]

[AndyDursin]

[Monterey Jack]

In somewhat related news...

[AndyDursin]

That movie looks positively awful...that it was getting poor test screening results does not surprise me.

What is interesting is Universal was letting them "license" the name and franchise IP until they saw the movie, then backed out of it, and decided to bring back Fraser and friends.

I guess the finished movie "strips out" whatever references there were to Universal Mummy's -- I definitely don't plan on seeing it, but you can only hope it's not as bad as the most recent Blumhouse WOLFMAN which was easily one of the worst films I've seen in a theater in the last 30 years.

I found this report from late last year --

The last we heard of Lee Cronin’s modern reboot of 1932’s The Mummy, principal photography had wrapped in June of this year.

However, all is not well aboard the project, with word of serious changes afoot.

A source close to the project tells us that Universal Pictures, the owners of The Mummy property, are no longer willing to license the title to Cronin’s film at New Line Cinema.

Instead, Universal are pursuing their own Mummy project, a fourth instalment in the wildly popular Brendan Fraser series.

Why the sudden change of heart from Universal? Well, we’re hearing that upon seeing an initial cut of the film, Universal backed out.

Following this, Cronin’s film is said to have performed poorly during multiple test screenings. The general consensus seems to be that Cronin’s project simply fails as a Mummy movie.

Instead, a source described the film as a “supernatural possession tale,” and not something that would warrant the title “The Mummy.”

Instead, the movie is allegedly to be re-titled, with The Resurrected currently said to be the frontrunner for the final choice. Given the poor test screening results, we’re told The Resurrected will be heavily reworked, likely removing any tie to the Mummy property.

[Monterey Jack]

Whole lotta pussies out there.