The Mummy 4 Heads South of the Border In Search of Fabled Donkey Show

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 5, 2008

Brendan Fraser in The Mummy

You only have yourself to blame for this news.

Due to the overwhelming audience response to the recent The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Rob Cohen and friends are already planning (threatening?) to birth a fourth film in the family friendly franchise. So after spreading their love and fecal matter throughout the Middle East and China, where should Rick and Evelyn O’Connell (aka Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello) go next? Well according to MTV the answer to that question is South America and/or Mexico!

In completely different interviews taking place days and miles apart, both Fraser and Bello suggested South American locales for a fourth mummy adventure. MTV seems to think Bello’s suggestion of “the Amazon” and Fraser’s possibility of “Peru” are “Geographically… too close for coincidence.” (We won’t tell them that parts of the Amazon actually extend into Peru…) Desperate for answers MTV tracked down director Cohen and made him spill the beans.

“What I’m really happy about is that, by taking ‘The Mummy’ out of Egypt and putting it in China, by exploring a different approach to the quest for immortality, we now have it clear that the ‘Mummy’ franchise can travel,” he said. “Now we know that if we want to go to Mexico or we want to go to Peru, we can because there’s a cultural truth there of the mummies and these beautiful cultures… So I think that somehow that might make the basis of a good story.”

Cohen then added that if you thought the Yetis from Tomb of the Dragon Emperor were cool, you’ll be shitting yourselves when the Chupacabras attack.


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  • maybe they could get speilburg to direct.
  • Well yeah, we DO have mummies in Peru, so I guess it could work. I haven't seen the Mummy 3 yet, though, so I don't know how well things could work in here if they decided to make the fourth film about Peruvian mummies. I would only have to requests if Cohen and company decide to do so, though:

    1. PLEASE come and shoot the film in here instead of filming in Mexico or some crappy studio backlot. (Ala the "Mexican Peru" of Indiana Jones 4.)
    2. PLEASE do some research and at least make it more historically accurate than Indiana Jones 4. (A film that, although I liked, DID embarass Peruvian history and enraged many moviegoers in here.)
  • 1. Chupacabras are awesome.
    2. Taking those easy shots at Mummy and Fraser, eh?
    3. Your Klean Kanteen is my spitoon.
  • Nate
    They should go ahead and write the scene with Luke Ford swinging with monkeys. The Mummy franchise is exactly where a scene like that belongs
  • Maybe they can release it 3 weeks into the next Batman film by Christopher Nolan and get their ass kicked again.

    Can we all just pitch some of our film ideas to execs as a protest to crappy sequels?
  • This is their chance to revamp the series - make it a prequel. Look at the gritty, real life Before They Were Mummies. Was that what Scorpion King was? I didn't bother to see it.

    Anyway, Fraser plays an orphan of Semitic decent who washes up onshore and is raised by Egyptian pharaohs. Once he finds out his true family identity, and that his people are enslaved, he leads a revolt against his former brother to get his people out of bondage and into a promised land of milk and honey.

    I can't think of a title, but I think it gives Fraser a lot of room to grow a sweet beard and yell a lot.
  • Chris
    'Tis not a mummy movie without Oded Fehr and Arnold Vosloo.
  • Nate
    @Cole

    Ah, recincarnation. Maybe that could work if it track's O'Connell's previous life.
  • Joe
    Here it is...Unless they bring Rachel Weise back, then it's going to suck like this one did. I'm not saying that the reason the script was bad was because of her absence, but she was a big part. Also them not allowing Jet Lee to do Karate stuff is NONSENSE!!!! New script bring back the original mummy!!! Him and Fraiser had could chemistry!
  • caydubb
    first off, i do have to say that the guy that wrote this article is being a little harsh about this. i love the whole mummy franchise and i think that if they do decide to make a fourth one that they should make it creepy like the first one. that would probably appeal to a lot more people, especially the ones that were disappointed with the latest film. im not saying i was disappointed, i really enjoyed it, it was different, creative, etc. and back to what i was saying about the creepiness, i just hope that they can can come up with a really good script and not just throw something together like how spiderman 3 seemed to be. the script/story for the next mummy film would have to be something really special for them to make a fourth movie cuz most franchises are better off after the third movie, with no offense to this franchise of course. the first mummy film was so unique and different cuz we hadnt seen anything like that before-the enormous wall of sand with imhoteps face in it, scarabs crawling up peoples skin, the fact that the mummy wasnt just some guy in a costume with toilet paper wrapped around him but was this creepy looking monster, and so on. the fourth film would have to have that uniqueness and creepiness the first one, it would just have to be worth watchig cuz i know that nobody likes a disappointment.
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