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Radio Silence’s ‘The Mummy 4’ Aims for August Production Start
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.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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