THE MUMMY sequel starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in development

The turn of the century is back as Deadline announced on Tuesday that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks to return to the world of The Mummy. The duo will reprise their roles as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, the adventurer couple who debuted in 1999’s The Mummy and recurred through sequels until 2008.

Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett), the directing team behind Ready or Not and Scream VI, will helm the movie, from a script by David Coggeshall (The Family Plan). Project X, a production house that teamed with Radio Silence on the Scream films and Read or Not: Here I Come, will re-team with the filmmakers on The Mummy.

Besides William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein of Project X Entertainment, The Mummy franchise veteran Sean Daniel is on board to produce.

Fraser and Weisz starred in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, both directed by Stephen Sommers. In 2008, Fraser returned in Rob Cohen‘s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, although Weisz didn’t appear in that film.

The Mummy franchise was one of the biggest cinematic touchstones of the turn of the century, with a blockbuster spinoff that helped make Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson a credible movie star. That movie — The Scorpion King — spawned four direct-to-home sequels, released between 2008 and 2018 on DVD and later streaming.

In the time since The Mummy, both Fraser and Weisz have earned Academy Awards; Weisz won in 2006 for The Constant Gardener and Fraser in 2023 for The Whale. Fraser’s next film, Rental Family, is coming later this month and already has a lot of awards buzz, too. Weisz has split her time between indie films and franchise movies like Marvel’s Black Widow.

Fraser has expressed numerous times that his action-star bona fides were both established, and ruined, by the Mummy franchise due to injuries he sustained while making the movies. Presumably, this means his take on Rick in the 2020s won’t be as stunt-heavy.

Universal, who based The Mummy on their hits from the Golden Age of Hollywood, attempted another reboot in 2017 with Tom Cruise, but the results were disastrous. The movie earned just $80.2 million at the domestic box office, and contributed to the cancellation of Universal’s planned “Monsterverse.”

There is no word yet on when the next installment in The Mummy franchise will hit theaters, but it’s likely to be a bigger hit than anything they’ve done since 2001. Radio Silence has a Ready or Not sequel coming in April, and Project X’s Scream 7 is set to hit theaters in February.