The classic horror-action-adventure franchise The Mummy will return from the dead in 2027. Original stars Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are set to reprise their roles in the series for a new film from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the film-making collective known as Radio Silence. And those aren’t the only two who are set to return to the franchise when it hits theaters on October 15, 2027.
1999’s The Mummy starred Fraser as adventurer Rick O’Connell and Weisz as Cairo librarian Evelyn Carnahan; the unlikely duo found themselves partners as they raced for a lost Egyptian treasure, only to end up facing the resurrected priest and sorcerer Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo), who wanted to put the soul of his long-lost love into Evelyn’s unwilling body. Over the course of the film, the two fell in love, and had married and had a son by the events of 2001’s The Mummy Returns, when they faced the return of Imhotep and the legendary Scorpion King (Dwayne Johnson). Fraser then returned, with Maria Bello replacing Weisz, in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, but it will apparently be ignored by the new film.
As reported by Deadline, two familiar faces will be joining Weisz and Fraser in the new movie. Oded Fehr and Kevin J. O’Connor, both of whom starred in The Mummy, with Fehr also returning for The Mummy Returns, have been added to the cast of the new film. Fehr played Ardeth Bay, a member of an ancient order dedicated to preventing the return of long-buried evils from the desert sands. O’Connor, meanwhile, played Beni Gabor, a treacherous and cowardly treasure hunter; Beni was last seen trapped in an ancient tomb, about to be devoured by a swarm of flesh-eating scarab beetles, but this is a franchise based on crossing the lines between life and death, after all. Joining them is Numan Acar, a newcomer to the franchise; a veteran of the TV series Homeland and films like Spider-Man: Far From Home and Desert Warrior, Acar can currently be seen on Prime Video’s Young Sherlock.
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
Who Else Will Star in ‘The Mummy 4’?
Also returning for the new film is John Hannah, who played Evelyn’s louche brother Jonathan in all three films of the franchise. He’ll be accompanied by newcomer Michael Johnston, who starred in this summer’s surprise horror hit Obsession. While Johnston’s Mummy role is being kept (no pun intended) under wraps for now, he recently discussed the film with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, saying he’d “been thinking about how they’re gonna take the classic Mummy story and put that spin on it and kind of subvert expectations. So that’d be really exciting.”
The Mummy 4 will be released in theaters on October 15, 2027. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Release Date
May 19, 2028
Director
Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Writers
David Coggeshall
Producers
James Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein, Sean Daniel, William Sherak
