Sometimes, a piece of entertainment news will be so beautiful, it genuinely takes you by surprise. For an entire generation of chronically-online movie buffs, one of those pieces of news arrived on Tuesday: Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting for a new The Mummy movie.
On Tuesday, it was announced that a new The Mummy movie is in the works at Universal. The new film will be directed by the filmmaking team of Radio Silence (also known as Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett), whose work includes Ready or Not, Abigail, and Scream and Scream VI. Instead of a brand-new take on the franchise, which was most recently attempted with a deathly-gritty Tom Cruise-led reboot in 2017, the film will be a continuation of the canon of Fraser and Weisz’s first two films, 1998’s The Mummy and 2001’s The Mummy Returns. (The events of 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which saw Mario Bello replacing Weisz as Evelyn O’Connell, will reportedly be ignored.)
