Aug 5 2008'The Mummy 4' Will Probably Be a Thing
Is critical lambasting and moderate attendance by bored audiences who already saw Batman considered "reponding well"? Because if it is, director Rob Cohen warns there will be a fourth Mummy, and that would be terrible. From MTV (Mummy 3 spoiler alert!):
Brendan Frasier as an immortal hero up against an immortal villain is just one of many ideas “Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” director Rob Cohen wants to explore in another installment of the blockbuster series, he told MTV News, insisting that a fourth installment is all but guaranteed if audiences respond well to “Mummy 3.”“Rick, because he was treated by the pool of eternal life, Rick is now immortal. I’d love to explore how that plays out for him,” Cohen said. “Another spoiler, Jonathan [John Hannah] winds up with the artifact in this film and he doesn’t realize, nor do we, what its powers are. In my mind, that artifact still has a lot of prizes in it, the eye of Shangri La, this big diamond.”
Alright, so a mummy-based Highlander does sound like kind of a fantastic idea, but I don't think it's worth it if the trade off is having to imagine Brendan Frasier as an immortal. It would make me too sad to think of him, the last survivor of our long-dead society, his final wisps of hair drifting to the ground as he outlasts the glue affixing them, quietly chuckling to himself as he remembers a particular scene from Monkeybone. And besides, we all know it would be, like Mummy 3, very bad.
Then again, I have an opening in 2015 for watching something terrible on TBS at 3 in the morning, so fuck it, let's make this thing. Skateboard Mummy Seal of Indifferent Approval: granted.
Reader Comments
1. crackface - August 5, 2008 7:40 PM
They should have just stopped after the first. It would have been a perfect stand alone, but no they turned it into a shitting sequal.
2. x - August 5, 2008 9:06 PM
I'm loving these approval mummies.
3. jimmy - August 5, 2008 10:55 PM
Is it wrong for a rich and successful woman to have a sugar baby? is it wrong that she falls in love with a handsome and charming man? It's human nature for her to want a younger and more attractive partner. Furthermore, more and more services come out on Internet focusing on this kind of relationship, such as S u g a r babydate . c om.
4. emily - August 6, 2008 12:19 AM
I have to say, Jimmy has the best spam post I've ever seen. It's like if Shylock had a shit $6.00 an hour spamming job. "If we give you links to viruses that will fuck up your PC so hard that Geek Squad practically laughs your ass out the door, are we not human? If paying $245 to recover your hard drive pisses you the fuck off and makes you ram a pencil into our jugulars, do we not bleed?"
5. Ginormagantuan - August 6, 2008 1:37 AM
you're friggin kidding me right????? why are they even wasting money on this, they should just give me that money, i can go buy a cheap video camera, run around in the fucking woods with the night vision on while shaking the shit out of it while i record, put the bitch on youtube and more people will watch than this movie.......
6. TommyP - August 6, 2008 5:56 AM
#5 - they did that and called it Evil Dead - now we have Bruce Campbell - that's not all bad.
I'm glad to see Brendan Fraser in a movie again. I feel like Mummy movies pay his mortgage so he can do more interesting stuff like "Gods and Monsters" and "The Passion of Darkly Moon".
Just my thoughts
7. chris - August 6, 2008 11:18 AM
"Fraser," not "Frasier."
Although, really... who cares.
8. Jay - August 6, 2008 12:14 PM
Rachel Weisz is HOT! Pretty and actiony. She makes Brendan Fraser seem almost human. I'd watch her read the phone book. I really missed her in M3. Maybe someone will do a Constatine Mummy movie. Kewl!
9. Ash Frog - August 6, 2008 2:33 PM
I don't think Mummy 3 was good enough to warrant a Mummy 4.
10. gordonrush12 - August 6, 2008 4:33 PM
skateboarding mummy + brendan fraser = The Mummy 4: Skate AND Die.