With Ready or Not 2: Here I Come now in theaters, Radio Silence directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett are looking ahead to their as-yet-untitled fourth installment in The Mummy franchise.
The action-adventure horror-comedy is aiming to enter production this summer for a May 19, 2028 release from Universal.
“We’re supposed to start prep in May, and hopefully shooting starts in August,” Gillett tells Collider.
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz will reprise their iconic roles as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell in the film, scripted by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill).
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project is said to be a sequel that disregards the events of the third movie (in which Weisz was recast with Maria Bello).
Gillett recently told Bloody Disgusting they plan to favor practical effects over digital. “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.”
Sean Daniel, who produced the original movies with his late partner James Jacks, is back as producer. William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein will produce through Project X Entertainment.
Fraser, Hivemind’s Jason F. Brown, and Denis Stewart will executive produce. Executive VP of production development Jay Polidoro and director of production development Jacqueline Garell are overseeing the project for Universal.
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.