"The news this week that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are to return in a new Mummy film for the first time in a quarter of a century feels a bit like Hollywood stumbling out of a very long house party it doesn't entirely remember attending. The last time the pair appeared together was 2001, when The Mummy Returns (itself an insipid sequel to 1999's much better The Mummy) hit multiplexes."
"The plan was to launch an interconnected saga in which Jekyll would act as a sort of monster-movie Nick Fury, corralling Dracula, Frankenstein and assorted undead assets into a synergised Marvel-style cinematic ecosystem. Fortunately it rapidly fell apart: 2017's Cruise-led The Mummy landed with all the grace of a cursed sarcophagus dropped down a lift shaft. And that, as far as the Dark Universe was concerned, was that."
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will reunite in a new Mummy film for the first time in twenty-five years. The duo last appeared together in 2001's The Mummy Returns, after which the franchise produced a Scorpion King spin-off and a 2008 sequel that omitted Weisz. Universal attempted a Dark Universe shared-universe model featuring classic monsters and marquee stars, but the 2017 Cruise-led reboot failed and those interconnected plans collapsed. The studio shifted toward smaller, standalone films such as Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man, and some planned projects for Bardem and Depp never materialised.
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