Mummy 4 in Peru
August 7th, 2008 in Action, Actors, Directors, Sequels
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.
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August 11th, 2008 at 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.
August 11th, 2008 at 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.
August 16th, 2008 at 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.
September 2nd, 2008 at 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.