{"id":419781,"date":"2026-02-11T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419781\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:21:10","slug":"the-mummy-4-has-to-feel-special-says-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419781\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mummy 4 ‘Has To Feel Special’, Says Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

The collective known as Radio Silence know a thing or two about reviving a beloved \u201890s property. Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have done it once already with their successful revival of Scream, having helmed the acclaimed fifth<\/a> and sixth<\/a> entries in the slasher saga \u2013 keeping the sharp scares, sharper humour, and satirical elements intact. Which makes them something of a dream to take on The Mummy<\/a>, the 1999 Universal Monsters favourite that combined Indiana Jones-style adventure and humour with genuine frights.<\/p>\n

Last year, it was confirmed that Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett are working on a fourth film<\/a> in the series that began with The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, and continued in 2001\u2019s The Mummy Returns<\/a>, followed by 2008\u2019s The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor<\/a> (in which Weisz didn\u2019t star). Both Fraser and Weisz are rumoured to be returning as Rick and Evie, respectively. For the directors, they know the bar has been set. \u201cHaving stepped into Scream, our radar for jumping into another franchise is that it has to feel special,\u201d Gillett tells Empire. \u201cAnd [David Coggeshall\u2019s] script really does that. It is very beautiful and sweeping and scary and fun.\u201d That\u2019s everything you want from a Mummy movie.<\/p>\n

As for their own properties, the duo imagine that Ready Or Not<\/a> could continue beyond impending sequel Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come<\/a>. \u201cIt does feel like there are a bunch of little corners that other stories could exist in,\u201d Bettinelli-Olpin teases. \u201cWe don\u2019t have any specific plan to explore anything, but there\u2019s definitely room to tell another story in this world.\u201d Whatever\u2019s next, feel-good frights await.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire\u2019s full Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come feature in the Masters Of The Universe issue<\/a>, on sale Thursday February 12. Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>. Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come is in UK cinemas from March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collective known as Radio Silence know a thing or two about reviving a beloved \u201890s property. Directors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-419781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}