Brendan Fraser And Rachel Weisz May Return For The Mummy Reboot

’90s nostalgia peaks as Universal courts the stars of the 1999 banger to reprise their iconic roles.

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reportedly in talks to join the upcoming reboot of The Mummy from Scream and Abigail directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, collectively known as Radio Silence. Although no details have been released, it’s a safe bet that they’ll be reprising the roles of roguish adventurer Rick O’Connell and feisty librarian Evelyn Carnahan, respectively. Deadline is reporting that multiple sources have confirmed the news, so I’d guess they’re on the money. Of course “in talks” is not a synonym for “locked in”, so let’s temper our expectations just a tad for the time being.

As fans of pulpy ’90s bangers already know, Fraser and Weisz co-starred in 1999’s The Mummy and 2001’s The Mummy Returns for director Stephen Sommers, with Fraser alone returning for 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor under director Rob Cohen. Since then, we had a pretty disastrous attempt to reboot the franchise with the Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy in 2017, which was intended to kickstart a whole Dark Universe. It didn’t, and lazy commentators have been making hay off of it ever since.

Which is sort of what I’m doing here, so no shade. The upcoming reboot, penciled in for some time in 2026, comes to us from the pen of screenwriter David Coggeshall, who also wrote the Family Plan flicks and Lee Daniels misguided foray into horror, The Deliverance, so that’s not great. But Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are absolute guns, so I think we can be optimistic about this one. At the very least, we can be sure that everyone involved now understands that chucking $200 million at a Mummy movie should see you placed under a conservatorship.