{"id":296843,"date":"2025-11-21T04:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296843\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:34:07","slug":"brendan-fraser-says-mummy-4-is-sequel-hes-been-waiting-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296843\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser Says &#8216;Mummy 4&#8217; Is Sequel He&#8217;s Been Waiting To Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/universal-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Universal Pictures<\/a> revisiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-mummy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mummy<\/a> franchise that made him a household name, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brendan-fraser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Brendan Fraser<\/a> is eager to tend to unfinished business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Deadline reported that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/new-mummy-movie-brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-radio-silence-1236606781\/\"><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> 4 is in the works<\/a> at Universal with Fraser and Rachel Weisz expected to reprise their roles, the former confirmed that he\u2019s preparing to film \u201cthe one I wanted to make\u201d in lieu of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe one I wanted to make was never made,\u201d he told the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brendan-fraser-rental-family-interview-1d3895901593b28eccd6547be8ffbfcc\">Associated Press<\/a>, noting that the third installment was an attempt to capitalize on that year\u2019s Summer Olympics in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cNBC had the rights to broadcast the Olympics that year,\u201d explained Fraser. \u201cSo they put two together and we went to China. Working in Shanghai, an incredible experience. I\u2019m proud of the third one because I think it\u2019s a good standalone movie. We picked up and did what we do with a different crew on deck and gave it our best shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFraser continued, \u201cBut the one I wanted to make is forthcoming. And I\u2019ve been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It\u2019s time to give the fans what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MCDMURE_EC030.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser in 2001's 'The Mummy Returns'&#10;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"700\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser in 2001\u2019s \u2018The Mummy Returns\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversal\/courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEarlier this month, Deadline reported that Radio Silence\u2019s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will direct the upcoming movie from a script by David Coggeshall (The Family Plan films, The Deliverance), with franchise veteran Sean Daniel to produce alongside William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein of Project X Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFraser and Weisz starred together in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), with Maria Bello replacing the actress as Evelyn O\u2019Connell in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Universal Pictures revisiting the Mummy franchise that made him a household name, Brendan Fraser is eager to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[42413,49,48,75,337,121338,121339],"class_list":{"0":"post-296843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brendan-fraser","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-mummy","14":"tag-the-mummy-4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}