Fraser’s fourth “Mummy” film will hit theaters in May 2028.

The Mummy sequel starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz gets major update

Fraser's fourth "Mummy" film will hit theaters in May 2028.

By Wesley Stenzel

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February 10, 2026 4:57 p.m. ET

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Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in 'The Mummy Returns'. Credit:

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We finally know when the *Mummy* franchise will reawaken.

Universal Pictures has officially added the next installment of the adventure franchise to its release calendar, giving the film a theatrical release date of May 19, 2028.

*The Mummy 4*, which has yet to receive an official title, will see Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz return to play Rick and Evelyn O'Connell. The duo first starred together in 1999's *The Mummy* and reprised their roles in 2001's *The Mummy Returns*. Fraser came back for a third installment, 2008's *The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor*, but Weisz did not join him. In her absence, Maria Bello played Evelyn.

The upcoming *Mummy* sequel will be helmed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who previously directed the fifth and sixth *Scream* movies as well as *Ready or Not* and its upcoming sequel, *Ready or Not 2: Here I Come*.

Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah in 'The Mummy'.

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The script will be written by David Coggeshall, who penned *Orphan: First Kill* and the *Family Plan* films.

Fraser previously teased that the new sequel will fulfill the dream he's had for the *Mummy* franchise for more than two decades. "The one I wanted to make is forthcoming," he told the Associated Press in November . "And 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."

The *Whale* star said that *Tomb of the Dragon Emperor* wasn't quite what he envisioned for the next *Mummy* movie. "The one I wanted to make was never made," he said. "The third one was a model of … how can I say this to the AP reporter? NBC had the rights to broadcast the Olympics that year. So they put two together and we went to China."

Though the upcoming sequel will mark Fraser's first movie in the series in 20 years, Universal's *Mummy* franchise hasn't been completely dormant since *Tomb of the Dragon Emperor*. The studio previously revived the property with a 2017 reboot starring Tom Cruise (simply titled *The Mummy*) that was intended to launch an interconnected Dark Universe.

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The *Mummy* universe has also persisted in a series of spinoffs revolving around the character Mathayus, also known as the Scorpion King, who was first played by Dwayne Johnson in *The Mummy Returns*. Johnson headlined the theatrical spinoff *The Scorpion King* in 2002, and the franchise received four more direct-to-video installments with other actors in the lead role, the latest of which was released in 2018.

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Additionally, Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema will release an unrelated *Mummy* film in April, helmed by *Evil Dead Rise* filmmaker Lee Cronin. The film is aptly titled *Lee Cronin's The Mummy*, and will star Jack Reynor and Laia Costa.

Universal's first-ever *Mummy *film, Karl Freund's *The Mummy*, hit theaters in 1932. The studio released four sequels to that film in the 1940s, and produced the comedy spinoff *Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy* in 1955. The British company Hammer Film Productions also made four *Mummy* movies inspired by Universal's series between 1959 and 1971.

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