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Nicolas Cage Would Totally Be Up for a Sequel to ‘Mom and Dad’
Nicolas Cage goes crazy and destroys a pool table in this year’s Mom and Dad, which is enough for me to recommend it to you. The Brian Taylor-directed film isn’t exactly *good*, per se, but it’s home to some epic #CageRage, which is sometimes all you really need from a Cage movie. And as it turns out, Cage wants to go back for seconds!
In Mom and Dad…
“A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.”
Speaking with CinemaBlend, Cage just talked sequel potential.
“In terms of sequels, I think Mom and Dad has potential for a sequel,” he told the site. “I mean, I would be curious to see the direction it could go in… but I think it was probably the most dysfunctional family ever put on celluloid… and with the grandparents coming in. You know, I think that there could be some sort of switch that gets flipped again where the kids start taking over and then going on a rampage. I feel like you could do something with the adapter particular family again and then have a lot of fun with it.”
If Cage is in, we are too!
Brendan Fraser is back for the upcoming fourth installment in The Mummy franchise from directors Radio Silence, and Michael Johnston (Obsession) is now in talks to join him.
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know tonight that Michael Johnston is in “early talks” to join The Mummy 4, which will release in theaters on October 15, 2027 via Universal.
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah will reprise their iconic roles as Rick O’Connell, Evelyn O’Connell, and Jonathan Carnahan in the upcoming movie.
Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not, Scream 5-6) are directing from a script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill).
Plot details are being kept under wraps at this time, but the brand new sequel is expected to disregard the events of the third movie, in which Rachel Weisz did not appear.
“It’s just really beautiful and scary and sweeping, and it’s awesome,” Gillet teases. Bettinelli-Olpin adds that the film “has all of the heart and the character that you could hope for.”
A remake of the classic Universal monster movie that took an action-adventure approach, The Mummy was released in 1999 and grossed $417 million worldwide. It was followed by The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008.