Brendan Fraser, who starred with Rachel Weisz in the original “The Mummy” trilogy, has expressed openness to rejoining the franchise for a potential fourth installment under the condition that it will still be fun: “Just gotta say, I know how hard it is to make that movie,” Fraser said at Fan Expo Canada in 2019 (via Comic Book). “I tried to do it three times, and the essential ingredient is fun. You gotta remember to have fun. So if there’s a fun way to approach it again, I’m all in.” Fraser joked he’d love to have the job in a later interview with Deadline.
However, director Stephen Sommers, while admitting wanting to work with the talented “The Mummy” team again, said there weren’t any ongoing talks about a new film starring Fraser at the moment: “Not that I know,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “All the people at Universal are new after I left. I don’t really know them, and they haven’t got a hold of me, so I don’t know what’s in their heads. At the same time, it would have to be something really special. Of course, I would work with all of those actors again.” So, while it appears the original forces behind the smash-hit trilogy are game to make a fourth film, and while there seems to be demand for a revival of the original franchise, audiences might have to wait a long time before a new installment of “The Mummy” comes to fruition.
