Mummify The Mummy 3
On this grim, pouring-rain morning in Manhattan, I just read in Cinematical that actress Rachel Weisz and director Stephen Sommers won't return for The Mummy 3. Now, replacing Weisz with Maria Bello isn't a bad move. I liked her in A History of Violence, even in ER, back when she a doctor in 25 episodes. And I like the underrated Brendan Fraser as a hero, too.
But, I mean, does this plot line get you going? "In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick (Fraser) and Alex O'Connell (Ford) unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin (Li) -- a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard (Yeoh) centuries ago." The remake in 1999 was adventurous in an Indiana Jones way. Though never scary, it was very tolerable. The Mummy Returns (2001) was neither scary nor full of adventure, just a bunch of scenes stolen from great filmmakers. Sequel: Do Not Want! Bury The Mummy. Let the ghouls rest in unexploited peace.
Me? I've heard that Sommers has handed his own script for this to Rob Cohen.
I'm praying that if Cohen takes the script and it does well, Universal will forget their plans to ruin "Van Helsing" by making it straight to DVD and give us another film that's released in the theater with the actors returning.
And it's because I don't think those 'Smallville' guys would spend hours in the library researching folklore and history.
I hear you, and I wish, too, that's the next mummy would be an astonishingly frightful and adventuresome mummy. I wish it, but the sinking feeling in my stomach means I don't believe it. Time will tell, Joanna
BTW, Goldberg, I have a petition up and running so that Universal will realize people do like those movies and don't want them ruined.
http://tinyurl.com/ywpgsw
i just signed it.
Thank you very much, and I'm going to take this time to say I am deleting negative comments. Why on earth bother to sign something you're not behind?