The Radio Silence boys, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, may be soaking up the critical and commercial success of Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come right now as their horror sequel continues to thrill and chill audiences worldwide, but as the saying goes, there’s no rest for the wicked. And with that being said, it looks like Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are already turning their attention towards their next chiller: The Mummy‘s legacy sequel. Following last month’s confirmation that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are returning for more supernatural swashbuckling action, THR has now confirmed John Hannah will also be returning as Evelyn’s wisecracking — and not altogether altruistic — brother Jonathan Carnahan.
Hannah, who’s previously stated on multiple occasions that he’d be open to returning as light-fingered Jonathan, will be joining Fraser in the four-for-four club as the only other actor in the franchise to have starred in every Mummy movie (Weisz, of course, dipped out on the critically panned — and believed to be now-retconned — The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor.) Plot details on this legacy sequel, reportedly a direct follow-up to The Mummy Returns, are being kept firmly under wraps (or should that be bandages?) for now, but its directors have teased a little of what we can expect very recently. Speaking to us for last month’s issue of Empire, the Radio Silence duo shared that screenwriter David Coggeshall has turned in “a very beautiful and sweeping and scary and fun” script — which sounds like a pretty good place to start to us.
Due to shoot later this year in both London and Morocco, The Mummy‘s latest chapter is beginning in the same year that its last canonical instalment, The Mummy Returns, heads back into cinemas to celebrate its 25th anniversary. How exactly Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan are coming back — and whether or not they’ll be joined by Oded Fehr’s Ardeth Bay — remains to be seen. But with the movie eyeing a 19 May, 2028 cinema release, we imagine we’ll be unwrapping more of The Mummy‘s secrets in the weeks and months ahead as production looks to get underway. Praise Imhotep!
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