In 1999 director Stephen Sommers made The Mummy, an action romp starring Brendan Fraser as treasure hunter Rick O’Connell and Rachel Weisz as librarian turned Egyptologist Evelyn Carnahan. Together they woke the mummified remains of high priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo). Adventures and peril followed, as well as two sequels— one of which saw Weisz replaced by Maria Bello as Evie.The first two are beloved. The third, not so much.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Now almost two decades later, horror mavens Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, best known for Ready or Not, Scream VI, and Abigail, are resurrecting the series, bringing Weisz and Fraser back together again to star. And while recently chatting with us, the direction portion of the Radio Silence collective was ready to unearth some of their own mummified past with Den of Geek.“One of the first projects that Tyler and I did was called ‘The Treasure Hunt,’ and it’s a little online YouTube interactive adventure thing; it’s Indiana Jones and Mummy adjacent,” says Bettinelli-Olpin, talking ahead of the release of their own gory sequel, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. “That whole genre is in our DNA. It’s ingrained, we just love it so much.” The two are absolutely stoked to be able to bring the franchise back to life, having grown up with the original. They’re also keen to make it a bit of their own, bringing their unique sensibilities to the material.“We want to push that PG-13 rating, because that’s how the first movie was for us,” Gillett smiles. “It had all of the fun action-adventure flavors but it also wasn’t afraid to be scary and cut away right at the nick of time. So bringing our genre sensibility into that has already been just really fun. There’s a level of magic and mythology that has created a lot of opportunities to do fun things.” If their slate is anything to go by, we can expect big set pieces, thrills and as much horror carnage as the rating will allow.A thread that comes across through must of their work including Ready or Not, Abigail and even their first feature, Devil’s Due, is a marrying of ancient and modern; the mythical with the grounded. Ready or Not and its sequel, for example, follows ultra-rich people who control the world as we see it today, who have made a pact with a primeval evil. “We’ve already been talking a lot about that on The Mummy,” Bettinelli-Olpins says. “How do we bring a modern feel to stuff within the world of the movie? Not like modern filmmaking, but how do you get a sense of something that at the time would be extremely modern? We love that idea, we love it in everything we do, there’s something about that clash of institutions and foundations, and then the modern interpretation crashing into that.”The two say it’s amazing to have Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz back together, “their chemistry is so lovely,” they agree.The script for the new Mummy movie will be by David Coggeshall, which Gillett described to Empire as “very beautiful and sweeping and scary and fun,” and the film, which is currently in preproduction, is slated for a May 2028 release.Before then we’ll get more mummy action with Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, a supernatural horror produced by Jason Blum and James Wan—Cronin made Evil Dead Rise for Warner Bros./New Line Cinema in 2023. Ahead of that you can satisfy you’re genre itch with Ready or Not 2 premiering at SXSW next month before opening in theaters on March 20.The post Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz’s New Mummy Movie Will ‘Push PG-13 Boundaries’ appeared first on Den of Geek.