Prometheus and The Darkest Hour screenwriter Jon Spaihts is hired to help bring The Mummy back to the big screen…
Three hit films and The Scorpion King spin-off line were the sum parts for Universal’s last attempt to bring The Mummy to the big screen. Kicking off in 1999, and finishing up with 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor, the films hardly got progressively better, but there was fun to be had in watching Brendan Fraser do battle with things made on computer screens.
Universal is keen to have another go at The Mummy, too, and its interest in rebooting the franchise appears to have been confirmed by its hiring of Jon Spaihts to pen a script for a new film.
Spaihts has previously worked on both The Darkest Hour and, more interestingly, Prometheus, and he told Variety that "I see it as the sort of opportunity I had with Prometheus: to go back to a franchise's roots in dark, scary source material, and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven't seen before."
It’s unknown if Brendan Fraser is being sought for a return to the franchise, although we very much doubt it. This sounds like a starting over job from what we’ve heard thus far. We will, of course, keep you posted…
Variety
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