John Hannah Returning as Rachel Weisz’s Brother in ‘The Mummy’
Universal Pictures’ The Mummy is officially moving forward with casting now that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are locked in to reprise their roles.
THR reports this Friday afternoon that John Hannah, who appeared in the previous Mummy movies, is reuniting with Fraser and Weisz for the latest installment of the horror-adventure franchise.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of film collective Radio Silence, who together revitalized the Scream franchise with 2022’s Scream and 2023’s Scream VI and are behind the Ready or Not films, are helming the feature, which has a script by David Coggeshall (The Family Plan, Orphan: First Kill).
Plot details are being kept in the sarcophagus at this stage. The original movie, released in 1999, starred Fraser as a treasure hunter who travels to Egypt in the 1920s with a spunky librarian, played by Weisz, only to accidentally awaken a supernaturally powerful high priest.
THR notes: “Hannah played the less-than-trustworthy brother of the librarian, a thief who, over the course of the original movies made, is always on the make, gaining and losing spoils, and ends each adventure with a little something in his pocket, even as ancient cities and treasures crumble around him and his friends. Hannah appeared in all three of the movies along with Fraser (Weisz stuck around only for the first two).”
The project is due to begin shooting in the fall in London and Morocco.
Universal will release the next feature on May 19, 2028.
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