The Upcoming Mummy Sequel Starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Gets an Official Release Date

Mummy fans, you’ve got a batch going for you close now. Lee Cronin’s instrumentality is dropping trailers and visuals near and right, and the movie is acceptable to beryllium released successful conscionable implicit 2 months. On apical of that, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are returning for a sequel to the beloved 1999 escapade movie — and we present person a merchandise day for that project.

According to the authoritative merchandise calendar for Universal Pictures, the 4th installment successful The Mummy franchise — which presently has nary authoritative rubric conscionable yet — volition deed theaters connected May 19, 2028. It’s a ways away, for sure, but astatine slightest there’s a day connected the books!

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, 2 of the members of the directorial corporate and accumulation institution Radio Silence, volition service arsenic directors connected the project. By now, you cognize these guys well; they’ve directed 2 of the 3 astir caller Scream sequels, some 5 and 6, and some Ready oregon Not and its sequel film, which is hitting theaters astatine the extremity of adjacent month. They besides made 1 of the champion V/H/S segments to date, the finale conception of the archetypal movie titled “10/31/98.”

David Coggeshall, the writer down Orphan: First Kill, volition constitute the publication for the upcoming Mummy sequel movie — and it seems arsenic though the crippled of the adjacent movie volition beryllium fulfilling a imagination for Fraser himself.

"The 1 I wanted to marque is forthcoming," helium explained to The Associated Press backmost successful November. "And I've been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It's clip to springiness the fans what they want."

"The 1 I wanted to marque was ne'er made," helium besides noted, revealing of the 3rd installment, Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: "the 3rd 1 was a exemplary of… however tin I accidental this to the AP reporter? NBC had the rights to broadcast the Olympics that year. So they enactment 2 unneurotic and we went to China."

After The Mummy was released successful 1999, the archetypal sequel titled The Mummy Returns debuted 2 years aboriginal successful 2001. The 3rd movie premiered successful 2008, though Weisz did not instrumentality for it and was replaced by Maria Bello. Thankfully, though, she’s backmost and it's hoped she and Fraser volition bring the bosom and charm of the archetypal close backmost to this beloved franchise… successful 2028, that is.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.