{"id":929565,"date":"2026-10-15T22:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929565\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T22:40:09","slug":"the-mummy-movie-with-brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-gets-a-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929565\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Mummy&#8217; Movie With Brendan Fraser &#038; Rachel Weisz Gets A Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/universal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_universal\" data-tag=\"universal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Universal<\/a> Pictures said Thursday that the next installment in its <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-mummy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-mummy\" data-tag=\"the-mummy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mummy<\/a> franchise that will r<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/the-mummy-release-date-brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-1236714578\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236714578\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eturn Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz<\/a> to their starring roles is titled <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-mummy-book-of-the-dead\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-mummy-book-of-the-dead\" data-tag=\"the-mummy-book-of-the-dead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mummy: Book of the Dead<\/a>. The pic remains set to hit theaters on October 15, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRadio Silence\u2019s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are directing the new film from a script by The Family Plan\u2018s David Coggeshall. The logline remains under wraps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFraser and Rachel Weisz return to their roles of Rick and Evie, first played in the 1999 franchise kickoff The Mummy directed by Stephen Sommers. John Hannan, Kevin J. O\u2019Connor and Oded Fehr also return from that original cast for the new installment, joined by Michael Johnston and Numan Acar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSean Daniel, who produced The Mummy, 2001\u2019s The Mummy Returns, 2002\u2019s The Scorpion King, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and 2017\u2019s Tom Cruise-led The Mummy for Universal, returns to produce alongside Project X Entertainment\u2019s William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein, and Clayton Townsend. Fraser and Hivemind\u2019s Jason F. Brown are executive producers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDespite starring in the first two movies, Weisz sat out the third movie, 2008\u2019s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Maria Bello took over the role, joining Fraser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFraser has since said he\u2019s been waiting 20 years for the call to return to the franchise, which combined has grossed more than $1.8 billion at the global box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures said Thursday that the next installment in its The Mummy franchise that will return Brendan Fraser&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,40395,134,344,496296,154435,496297,1844],"class_list":["post-929565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brendan-fraser","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-rachel-weiss","tag-the-mummy","tag-the-mummy-book-of-the-dead","tag-universal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}