Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz returning for fourth ‘Mummy’ movie

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are returning to the scene of the scare as they gear up for a fourth Mummy film The upcoming installment in the Fraser iteration of the Universal monster franchise which last hit theaters with s The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor will be helmed by Ready or Not directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett Variety reports The duo reached a new level of horror fame when they stepped behind the camera for the fifth and sixth Scream films following original director Wes Craven s death in Oscar winners Fraser and -year-old Weisz made for a steamy pair in s The Mummy set in Egypt and s The Mummy Returns set at a London museum though she sat out the third film News of the newest chapter comes just over three years after Fraser expressed to Variety during his prosperous Best Actor campaign for The Whale that he d be open to revisiting the Mummy franchise if someone came up with the right conceit The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy which I didn t see in the new one was fun disclosed Fraser of Tom Cruise s bungled crack at the undead in