Universal’s beloved The Mummy franchise is shaking off its wraps and heading into a fourth chapter! Brendan Fraser, who led the trio of movies made between 1999 and 2008, and Rachel Weisz, who starred in the first two entries, are in talks to star in a new Mummy film, courtesy of Radio Silence. The filmmaking team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, best known for Ready or Not and the Scream franchise revival, are set to direct.

Sean Daniel, who produced the original movies with his late partner James Jacks, returns to producing duties. Joining him are William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein, who will produce via their Project X Entertainment banner. They are frequent Radio Silence collaborators, having worked together on Abigail, Scream 5 and Scream 6.

Directed and co-written by Stephen Sommers, the original Mummy applied an Indiana Jones vibe to the classic Universal Monsters, and saw Fraser as a treasure hunter who travels to Egypt in the 1920s with a librarian, played by Weisz, only to accidentally awaken a supernaturally powerful high priest.

One of THR‘s sources describes the project as not a reboot, but a sequel, and one that would disregard the events of the third film. David Coggeshall wrote the screenplay.

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