Universal knows it’s got a potential cash cow with its classic monsters – The Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc. – but it’s had a very mixed record of trying to exploit that, with the only outright success being The Mummy movies. Now the studio is looking to reboot The Mummy franchise once again, with Prometheus screenwriter Jon Spaihts hired to pen the script, according to Variety.
The Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz Mummy movies proved very popular, with three movies between 1999 and 2008, as well as the spin-off The Scorpion King, which also has two sequels. Those movies were deliberately family friendly, but it sounds as if this new take may be a little more grown up, with Spaihts commenting, “I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with Prometheus, to go back to a franchise’s roots in dark, scary source material, and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven’t seen before.”
Sean Daniel, who produced all three The Mummy movies, will return as a producer, although there’s no info on when this reboot might shoot or who will star.
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