THE MUMMY 4? Brendan Fraser Is Open To Return If Done Right

The Mummy has been sleeping dormant after the last iteration of the film starring Tom Cruise did horrible at the box office and ultimately killed Universal’s plans for a “Dark Universe” of films surrounding the Universal Monsters. Before that though, the man who was at the forefront of The Mummy franchise was of course Brendan Fraser as Rick O’Connell in The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor between 1999 and 2008.

Now that the “Dark Universe” is no more, where could The Mummy go if brought back and would Brendan Fraser return?

With Fraser’s popularity on the rise thanks to a career resurgence in recent years, that’s the question Variety asked the actor this week. His response? He’s not against the idea!

“I don’t know how it would work,” Fraser tells Variety while promoting Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. “But I’d be open to it if someone came up with the right conceit.”

Fraser continues, “It is hard to make that movie. The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn’t see in [the Tom Cruise] film, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation. It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie. The Mummy should be a thrill ride, but not terrifying and scary.”

Fraser does make a good point. The films he was in were more action adventure with tinges of Horror thrown in for good scares and substance and fans ate it it. the 1999 film out-grossing the 2017 film even when its numbers aren’t adjusted for inflation. Even the lowest grossing movie in Fraser’s trilogy, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, scared up a worldwide total of $403 million. With nostalgia for the trilogy on the rise, The Mummy 4 could be a massive hit for Universal.

Who knows if this will indeed happen though. We’ll keep ya posted as always.

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