Praise Imhotep! Just hours after we shared a snippet of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — aka Ready Or Not duo Radio Silence — talking about their upcoming The Mummy legacy sequel’s “very beautiful and sweeping and scary and fun” screenplay, Deadline has just dropped some very exciting news about the guys’ resurrection of a true Universal Monsters classic. Yes, following on from earlier reports that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz were in talks for The Mummy 4, it’s now official: Rick and Evelyn O’Connell will be back back back in the unexpected fourquel! And, what’s more, it’s set to be a proper summer blockbuster, heading our way on 19 May, 2028.
Rocking a script from The Family Plan scribe David Coggeshall, Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s take on The Mummy is being kept very hush-hush for the time being insofar as revealing how Evelyn and Rick — last seen together in 2001’s The Mummy Returns (only Fraser returned for 2008’s 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor — will be returning and in what capacity. THR has previously reported that the new movie will ignore Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor however, which would create a far smoother ramp for the Radio Silence duo’s take on the franchise, whose signature blend of wit and genuine horror is a perfect match for the guys behind Scream‘s reboot and Scream VI. (Whether we’ll be seeing fellow Mummy OGs Jonathan Hannah or Oded Fehr returning for the big-screen reunion remains to be seen, though both actors have previously declared they’d be up for reprising their roles as Jonathan Carnahan and Ardeth Bay.)
With Indiana Jones having seemingly wrapped up with The Dial Of Destiny back in 2023, Disney’s long-mooted Pirates Of The Caribbean reboot still lost at sea currently, and the Brenaissance in full flow just now, the timing couldn’t be more right for a big swashbuckling action-adventure franchise to come back to our screens with its original heroes front and centre once again. Roll on 19 May, 2028… only 829 days to go!
