"Released in 1999, The Mummy starred Brendan Fraser as American explorer Rick O'Connell, with Rachel Weisz as librarian Evelyn Carnahan. The duo reunited for 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, with just Fraser coming back for 2008's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. That time, Weisz's character was played by Maria Bello. A fourth film has been rumoured for nearly two decades, with Bello saying that she had signed on to play Evelyn once more. However, it was cancelled in Universal Pictures in 2012."
"News that a fourth Mummy film is in the works once more came in November, with Fraser implying in an interview that he'd never been entirely satisfied with the third movie. "The one I wanted to make was never made," he told The Associated Press. "The one I wanted to make is forthcoming. And I've been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It's time to give the fans what they want.""
The Mummy 4 is scheduled to be in cinemas on 19 May 2028 and will see Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz reprising their original roles, with Weisz returning as Evelyn after 25 years. The project currently has no official title. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are attached as directors and David Coggeshall wrote the script. The 1990s and 2000s Mummy films were box office successes and were loosely based on a series of films from the 1930s to 1950s and a 1951 reboot. A fourth film was long rumoured, faced cancellation by Universal in 2012, and saw Maria Bello portray Evelyn in 2008.
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