Brendan Fraser & Rachel Weisz In Talks To Return For New ‘Mummy’ Movie From Universal; Radio Silence To Direct
https://deadline.com/2025/11/new-mummy-movie-brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-radio-silence-1236606781/
https://deadline.com/2025/11/new-mummy-movie-brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-radio-silence-1236606781/
25 Comments
dropdan@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 311d
I don't need a new Mummy movie. But I might need a new Brendan Fraser Mummy movie.
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 310d
Vanth@reddthat.com · 25 pts · 311d
If it actually has both Rachel Weiss and Brendan Fraser in it, I would be excited to see it. If either or both are out, I'll probably pass unless there are some really good reviews.
C'mon, studio. Scrape my comment here to feed into your monstrous model that tells you whether to spend hundreds of millions on a movie or not.
JoshsJunkDrawer@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 311d
I love how in a year where we get great and unique movies like One Battle After Another, It Was Just an Accident, Weapons, and Caught by The Tides, Hollywood looks at them, shrugs their shoulders, and says "I don't know, another Mummy I guess?"
Zorque@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 311d
How many shitty original movies are there for each good one, though? An established property at least has an audience. Can't say the same for some random movie picked out of the pile.
M137@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 310d
Weapons was so fucking bad though... I seriously don't understand how people don't agree with that.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 311d
I loved the first one, liked the second one until the final hideousness with The Rock. The third one was utter dogshit,.
I will pass.
jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 311d
While I like the original two Mummy movies (Scorpion King was OK), I am not sure what the point of remake or continuation would be.
Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 311d
The point is that I want Brendan Fraser to have more money and I love him
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d
Thats about the only reason I perked up when I saw the headline.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
On that note I'd love a Monkeybone sequel.
I accept that it will be terrible, I just want it.
Maven@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 311d
Monkeybone wasn't terrible!
It wasn't a well acted or constructed story with amazing dialogue but it set out to be an incredibly weird niche movie with a specific vibe and it nailed that vibe perfectly!
10/10 movie in my books. It did exactly what it was planning to do.
Zorque@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d
Oh, I agree. I just think it was lightning in a bottle that can't be captured twice. I just want someone to prove me wrong.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d
Making money for the IP owner.
jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 310d
I would prefer if this wasn't the only accomplishment of a hypothetical sequel.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 310d
The people making sequels only want to accomplish that. That’s the whole point of sequels and franchises.
Nobody in charge is thinking: “gosh that’s an important or interesting story that has some more depth in it. We should explore that concept in a new way”
It’s always: “that movie sold enough to justify risking money on producing another product that sells just as much”
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 311d
What is the point of any book, movie, song, piece of art?
jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 310d
That's a very good question that doesn't really have an answer.
I am just not a fan of random sequels, remakes and faux-adaptions (e.g. Foundation or The Man in the High Castles).
Make a sequel by all means, but make it a unique experience, make it something new, give people that "wow, I didn't expect that!" feeling.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 311d
Didn't they already do this? with Tom Cruise in 2017? Are they just wholesale dismissing the existence of that film? because honestly, fair it was shite.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 311d
No, because that movie didn’t bisexually awaken a single person.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 311d
Time for my TRIsexual awakeningoh people already say that, they say "trYsexual as in I'll try anything", now it's just gross
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 310d
No. The Cruise mummy movie had no connection to the Frazier movies.
The Cruise movie was a second attempt to be the anchor of the Dark Universe. (After Dracula Untold shat the bed).
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
I'd watch. At least they haven't run this one into the ground, like Star Wars, Star Trek, and MCU. Although, Andor was good. I tried watching the new Superman, and... no. I only made it about ten minutes before shutting it off. I think I've had my fill of superhero movies.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 311d
The 3rd one was shit, but mostly because Rachel Weisz wasn't in it.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 311d
Yes the have run it into the ground. I guess you never tried the Scorpion King crap.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 311d
I'm all for a Brendan Fraser + Rachel Weisz movie, but why do we need a mummy? How about a completely unconnected original story?