Tyler Gillet & Matt Bettinelli-Olpin are gearing up to unleash crowd-pleasing horror fun with this week’s release of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, but they’re also in the midst of reviving another beloved franchise.
The filmmaking duo, also known as Radio Silence, is set to direct The Mummy 4 for Universal, scheduled for release on May 19, 2028.
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz have officially signed on to reprise their iconic roles as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell in the as-yet-untitled fourth installment in The Mummy franchise, written by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill).
Plot details, of course, are under wraps at this time, though the directors have hinted that it’ll disregard the third entry, which saw Weisz replaced by Maria Bello.
When speaking with Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin ahead of Ready or Not 2’s release, the directors teased more about the project and whether they’d continue their streak of employing practical effects as much as possible, especially in a franchise that emerged in the ’90s with some noticeably dated VFX.
“I think we can fully say that’s the aim,” Gillett tells Bloody Disgusting about whether they’ll opt for practical over VFX. “To steer into Raiders [of the Lost Ark] territory. Obviously, there are going to be big grand set pieces that are going to require some of that, but I think our goal is to put ourselves and the crew and the cast in as real a situation as we can.”
A remake of the classic Universal monster movie, The Mummy was released in 1999 and grossed $422.5 million worldwide. It was followed by The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008.
The Mummy Returns, in particular, has been criticized for its VFX, notably of the villainous Scorpion King (Dwayne Johnson). So this is especially great news to hear.
Stay tuned for more from Bloody Disgusting’s chat and more on Ready or Not 2.
