Brendan Fraser, 57, and Rachel Weisz, 56, were all smiles filming a scene together in West London, back on the same Mummy set as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell 25 years after The Mummy Returns, according to Page Six.
The earlier, separate shoots point to post-war Britain, decades after the originals’ 1926 and 1933 settings. A 1957 speed trial put Fraser behind the wheel of a silver-and-red rocket car at a former military base in Suffolk.
Weisz filmed outside the British Museum carrying a vintage briefcase and holding a transistor radio, her period costume including a mustard-yellow polka-dot skirt, cropped jacket and wide-brimmed hat.
Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are directing the untitled fourth film from a David Coggeshall script. Universal moved its release from May 19, 2028, to October 15, 2027. Fraser is also an executive producer, and original producer Sean Daniel is back.
Fraser confirmed the September 7 filming start at the Deauville American Film Festival, where he took the Talent Award and told Canal+ he had to be at work Monday morning. The production also includes desert sequences in Morocco.
Weisz sat out 2008’s Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, when Maria Bello took the part, so this is the first time she and Fraser have played the couple opposite each other in a quarter of a century. Asked whether that film is still canon, Bettinelli-Olpin said, “Well, Rachel is in this one.” Gillett added, “That should answer the question for you.”
John Hannah is also back as Evelyn’s brother Jonathan, and he described the mood on set to ITV’s Lorraine this month: “Rachel was saying last night, we were shooting last night, how she just looks at me and starts to giggle. She’s a very serious actress!”
Oded Fehr is returning as Ardeth Bay, and Kevin J. O’Connor is back as Beni, despite his apparent death in the first film’s scarab attack. Hannah has indicated that Arnold Vosloo is finalizing his return as Imhotep. New cast members include Numan Acar and Michael Johnston, whose role is a new character.
The pair first appeared together in Stephen Sommers’ 1999 original and its 2001 sequel. The first made more than $409 million worldwide; the second made $443 million.
Fraser, who won Best Actor for The Whale in 2023, tore a spinal disc while making the earlier Mummy films and underwent years of surgeries, including a spinal laminectomy, partial knee replacement and vocal-cord work. By the third movie, he said, he was building a daily “exoskeleton” of tape and ice packs. He’s described returning as “like reconnecting with an old friend” and spent months getting his “57-year-old gear in shape.”
