Following the “overwhelming audience response” to Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Film School Rejects are reporting that Rob Cohen is already planning to make a fourth film in the franchise. Where will the next movie be set? Where else can you get mummies? Peru, of course!
Both Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello suggested South America to be the next location for the fourth film. Cohen had more to add.
“What I’m really happy about is that, by taking ‘The Mummy’ out of Egypt and putting it in China, by exploring a different approach to the quest for immortality, we now have it clear that the ‘Mummy’ franchise can travel,” he said. “Now we know that if we want to go to Mexico or we want to go to Peru, we can because there’s a cultural truth there of the mummies and these beautiful cultures… So I think that somehow that might make the basis of a good story.”
As expected, no release date was given, though you can expect to see the film in another three years.
Matt said
August 11 2008 @ 11:06 am
Um… don’t you mean *5th*? Let’s see – we have The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Scorpion King, and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which is the 4th in the franchise. A further Mummy film would be number 5. Granted, Scorpion King wasn’t about a mummy, but centred on the character introduced in The Mummy Returns, hence falls within the franchise.
Rajiv Ashrafi said
August 11 2008 @ 1:58 pm
I don’t consider Scorpion King to be an entry in the Mummy franchise. It was a spinoff off the Scorpion King presented in the Mummy sequel.
daniel said
August 16 2008 @ 4:10 pm
i agree with the claim that scorpion king was not an actual part of the mummy series. i also think that the imhotep storyline is not properly resolved and should have been.
however i would very much like to see a mummy film set in atlantis or one with a dinosaur-mummy. dinosaurs definitely fit in the overall pulp-atmosphere.
kate said
September 2 2008 @ 12:49 pm
You guys are right the scorpion king is a stand alone. I would love to see another Mummy movie also, but I’d like to see Rachel Weiss come back as well as the original Mummy some how.
alexander said
February 7 2009 @ 9:09 am
i cant wait for the 4 one and i think that its going to be mountains again because peru is the place were ancient Inki tom of native americans lived and they did make mummies.
i hope i spelled everything right
doug said
February 11 2009 @ 8:02 pm
mummy 4 or 5 whatever the following will be in peru..incas empire and please get a good guy about incas history and make a good movie or maybe u can get peruvian people and they will help about history…
JOhn Sinkers said
April 26 2009 @ 10:59 am
Excellent decision to do mummy 4 in Peru. Inka´s empire actually is very rich on culture and mummies.
Go ahead
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May 9 2009 @ 1:06 am
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kab said
May 20 2009 @ 12:38 pm
I agree, I would love to see mummy 4 with the original Mrs. O’ Connell (Rachel Weiss) and Imotep. The chemistry between Rick, Evelyn and Jonathan is great. You can cut son out of the picture and bring back Imotep.
I’ll be waiting.
Alex said
July 25 2009 @ 8:15 pm
Great idea for the next Mummy 4th to be in peru as there are ancient cultures with mummies history I mean Incas and pre-Incas I hope with rachel weiss and frazer too, I’ll be waiting so anxiously!
nick said
July 28 2009 @ 7:58 pm
i cant wait for the 4th one. i liked the third one but it isnt the instant classic the first one was, i also thought that luke ford did a great job as alex. and i know people want imotep back but after two movies with him there isnt much else you can do with him without it gettting old, also imotep kind of gave up at the end of the second movie.
Ruth said
October 13 2009 @ 1:05 pm
What happened to Rachel Weisz in this series??? She is by far the best!!