Is it really a Brendan Fraser Mummy movie if Arnold Vosloo isn’t playing the titular mummy?
Vosloo revealed a couple of days ago on Jack Carr’s Danger Close podcast (via Bloody Disgusting) that he had “just signed my deal” to return as the villainous Imhotep in The Mummy: Book of the Dead. Vosloo played Imhotep, the franchise’s main titular mummy and undead High Priest of Osiris, in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001).
“We are doing another Mummy. Brendan and them are shooting now in London. And the character Imhotep is back, that I play. I’ll be going there in November. The first time I’ve admitted… I’m back in the next Mummy. Imhotep is back. Somebody wakes me up… they read from the Book of the Dead… and there we are,” Vosloo teased.
“The script’s very good. I’m excited,” the actor continued, before adding later in the interview that the movie is “gonna make me look like I did when I was 38 years old, when I made the first one.”
While The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) attempted to switch things up in the franchise by introducing a new mummy — Jet Li’s Qin Shi Huang — Book of the Dead will return to Imhotep. This makes sense given that directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett previously stated that the events of Tomb of the Dragon Emperor would be ignored in the upcoming legacy sequel.
Filming has been underway on Book of the Dead since September. Besides Fraser and Vosloo, actors reprising their original Mummy roles in Book of the Dead include Rachel Weisz as Evelyn “Evy” Carnahan-O’Connell, John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan, Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay, and Kevin J. O’Connor as Beni Gabor. As for new additions to the franchise, Obsession breakout star Michael Johnston, Numan Acar, and Tara Emad have been cast in undisclosed roles.
The Mummy: Book of the Dead is scheduled to hit theaters on October 15, 2027.
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