The Mummy franchise has been making headlines again in 2026 with the confirmation of another sequel, but many fans don’t need news of a fourth movie to want to revisit the classic 1999 film that started it all. In fact, as somebody who watched the The Mummy many times as one of the best movies of the ‘90s on VHS back in the day, leading man Brendan Fraser’s recent comments about his love for the franchise have me hyped to go back to the world that was introduced to viewers nearly thirty years ago… and it doesn’t hurt that I’d just rewatched the original with my Hulu subscription.
Brendan Fraser was joined by fellow franchise stars John Hannah, Oded Fehr, and Patricia Velasquez on the stage at Fan Expo Cleveland for a Mummy reunion. In front of a packed room of fans (who largely seemed to be my fellow millennials who had also watched Rick O’Connell and Co. running through the sands of Egypt in the late ‘90s), Fraser addressed the lingering fan love for the movie and the reason why he’s on board to reprise the role decades later:
