25 Years Later, The Mummy Is Headed Back To Theaters
Apr 05, 2024
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The Mummy will be coming back to theaters for a limited run starting April 26. Originally released in 1999, the Stephen Sommers-directed film starred Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Arnold Vosloo.Set in 1926, The Mummy follows a group of adventurers looking to claim a long-lost Egyptian treasure, but the gang accidentally awakens Imhotep, the ancient high priest of Egypt who was sentenced to a gnarly fate for several heinous crimes. Reawakened, the mummified Imhotep goes on a killing spree to regenerate his form and unleashes plagues upon Egypt as he seeks to resurrect his one true love.The Mummy would make $416 million at the global box office and spawned multiple sequels, spin-offs, and even an animated series. The Mummy Returns hit theaters in 2001 and added WWE star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to its cast--as well as a very weird CGI model of him--and the series came to an end in 2008 with The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor--if you don't count the weird Scorpion King spin-off movies.Years later, Universal Pictures would reboot The Mummy as part of its Dark Universe cinematic universe, but the action film starring Tom Cruise received mixed reviews and was considered a box office flop. Fraser--who almost died for real while filming The Mummy--has expressed in interviews that he'd be interested in reprising his role as Rick O'Connell in another Mummy movie.The actor has made a big comeback over the last couple of years, earning an Oscar in 2023 for The Whale and he featured in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.
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