Having already resurrected the Scream franchise, Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett are next set to revive another beloved genre franchise with The Mummy 4.
“Having stepped into Scream, our radar for jumping into another franchise is that it has to feel special,” Gillett tells Empire.
Gillett adds that the script, written by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill), “really does that. It is very beautiful and sweeping and scary and fun.”
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are expected to reprise their roles as Rick and Evie for the fourth installment, which sources indicate is not a reboot but rather a sequel that disregards the events of the third movie.
“The one I wanted to make is forthcoming,” Fraser previously said of the project. “I’ve been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It’s time to give the fans what they want.”
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.
As for their own properties, Radio Silence imagines that Ready or Not could continue beyond Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, which hits theaters March 20.
“It does feel like there are a bunch of little corners that other stories could exist in,” Bettinelli-Olpin teases. “We don’t have any specific plan to explore anything, but there’s definitely room to tell another story in this world.”
