{"id":12283,"date":"2026-07-28T02:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=12283"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:44:38","slug":"obsession-star-michael-johnston-eyeing-the-mummy-sequel-with-brendan-fraser-and-rachel-weisz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/obsession-star-michael-johnston-eyeing-the-mummy-sequel-with-brendan-fraser-and-rachel-weisz\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsession Star Michael Johnston Eyeing The Mummy Sequel With Brendan Fraser And Rachel Weisz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/obsession-star-michael-johnston-eyeing-the-mummy-sequel-with-brendan-fraser-and-rachel-weisz.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<hr class=\"preferredSourceCTA_divider__FIEES\" \/><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>What do you get when you cross two of the hottest directors around with one of the most beloved millennial franchises in all of film and the star of 2026&#8217;s biggest horror movie? Well, we may just be about to find out folks. According to <em>THR<\/em>, Michael Johnston \u2014 breakout star of Curry Barker&#8217;s wildly successful <em>Obsession<\/em> \u2014 isn&#8217;t done with dabbling in the supernatural just yet: in fact, he&#8217;s in talks to star alongside Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah in Radio Silence&#8217;s very hotly anticipated upcoming <em>The Mummy<\/em> legacy sequel.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>As the star of Curry Barker&#8217;s unexpected blockbuster <em>Obsession<\/em>, a Monkey&#8217;s Paw chiller that cost $750,000 to make and then made a staggering $458 million at the box office, Michael Johnston \u2014 despite having previously starred in the <em>Teen Wolf<\/em> TV series and given his voice to everything from <em>God Of War<\/em> to <em>X-Men &#8217;97<\/em> \u2014&nbsp;has become something of an overnight superstar. As such, it&#8217;s unsurprising that the Radio Silence guys, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (of <em>Ready Or Not<\/em>, <em>Abigail<\/em>, and <em>Scream<\/em> fame), have courted the actor to join their secrecy-shrouded sequel \u2014 especially considering how well their general vibe and Johnston&#8217;s in <em>Obsession<\/em> fit. And while it bears (or should that be Bears?) repeating that Johnston is only in early talks for Radio Silence&#8217;s latest at this stage, the prospect of such an exciting new talent appearing on-screen alongside our already beloved adventurers Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan is a tantalising one to say the least.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"content_content__i0P3p\" data-test=\"content\"><\/p>\n<p>Plot details on this legacy sequel, believed to be a direct follow-up to&nbsp;<em>The Mummy Returns<\/em>, are being kept firmly under bandages for the time being, as you&#8217;d expect. That being said, the Radio Silence guys <em>did<\/em> recently share with <em>Empire<\/em> that screenwriter David Coggeshall has turned in&nbsp;&#8220;a very beautiful and sweeping and scary and fun&#8221; script\u2014 and those are all very good words to be hearing. With <em>The Mummy 4<\/em> set to shoot later this year in London and Morocco and currently slated for a 15 October, 2027 cinema release, we expect we&#8217;ll be hearing lots more about this one very soon. We guess you could say that we may have just found our next obsession&#8230; now don&#8217;t mind us while we snap this One Wish Willow to get Oded Fehr on board. What could possibly go wrong, eh?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"source-links-container\" data-test=\"source-links\">\n<h2 class=\"sourceUrl_h2__0dV2J\">Sources Links<\/h2>\n<p>THR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you cross two of the hottest directors around with one of the most beloved millennial franchises in all of film and the star of 2026&#8217;s biggest horror movie? Well, we may just be about to find out folks. According to THR, Michael Johnston \u2014 breakout star of Curry Barker&#8217;s wildly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12285,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions\/12285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}