“The Mummy” star Brendan Fraser was in his thirties when he first became an action star with his trio of adventure movies. Now, nearly 20 years after his last outing as archaeologist Rick O’Connell, the 57-year-old actor is getting back into shape for the long-awaited “Mummy 4.”
Fraser joined Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” to tease “The Mummy 4,” which is set to release in theaters on Oct. 15, 2027. He’ll reunite with Rachel Weisz, who starred as Rick’s wife Evelyn in the first two “Mummy” movies before being replaced by Maria Bellow in the role in “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.” John Hannah, who played Evelyn’s older brother Jonathan, is also back for the sequel.
“We’re gonna get the band back together,” Fraser told Fallon. “The only way to do it. So, we are going to give the audience what they have been bothering all of us for, for the last twenty-whatever years.”
“The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” was released in 2008, but was the lowest grossing film of the trilogy and received negative reviews compared to 1999’s original “The Mummy” and the 2001 sequel “The Mummy Returns.”
“I was hopeful for a long while, and then I was like, ‘I don’t know if they are.’ Then other ‘Mummy’ movies got made,” Fraser said about his return to the franchise. “But listen, what we’re gonna do is saddle back up, go back to the locations — I should probably stop talking like this, because I don’t want to give everything away.”
“The Mummy 4” will be Fraser’s first action movie in years. He won the Oscar for best actor for his 2022 drama “The Whale,” had a supporting role in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and recently starred in last year’s awards contender “The Rental Family.”
“Please wish me luck,” he said about his “Mummy 4” training. “I’m doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape.”
Watch his interview below.
Source: variety.com
