Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, Brendan Fraser confirmed that The Mummy 4 is officially happening, and that he's already started preparing the only way that made sense. By riding the Universal Studios attraction built around the original films.
'I heard that to get you in character for the role, Universal took you to your ride,' Fallon said, flashing a photo of Fraser aboard the Revenge of the Mummy coaster, mid-drop, grinning. 'Can you spot me?' Fraser joked. Fallon then added 'I have a ride as well' (referring to his Ride Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon ride at Universal Studios). Sheepishly, Fraser responded 'and I haven't been on it yet.'
The crowd erupted. Fraser, 57, confirmed he plans to fix that soon. 'Count on it' he said, and got back to the Mummy news people wanted to hear.
'We're going to get the band back together,' he said of the fourth Mummy film, slated for release October 15, 2027. 'We're going to give the audience what they have been bothering all of us for for the last 20-whatever years.' He stopped himself before saying too much. 'I should probably stop talking like this before I give anything away. However, I know that — please wish me luck. I'm doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape.'
Rachel Weisz, who played Evelyn O'Connell in the first two films but sat out the 2008 third installment, is confirmed to return alongside Fraser. The film will be directed by Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, known for Ready or Notand the recent Screamfilms.
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The Mummy news wasn't the only thing Fraser brought to Fallon's couch. He's also set to appear in the WWII drama Pressure, in theaters May 29, playing General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the tense 72 hours before D-Day. Fraser said he knew almost nothing about the history when director Anthony Maras approached him, but what sealed the deal was a side-by-side photo of himself and Eisenhower that Maras sent over.
'I was like, 'Me, really? I don't really look like Ike Eisenhower,' he told Fallon. 'And then he sent me a photo of myself alongside Dwight Eisenhower, and I went, 'Oh, okay.'
Pressure centers on the little-known story of a British meteorologist whose forecast, dismissed by most of the Allied command, persuaded Eisenhower to delay the Normandy invasion by roughly 14 hours, exploiting a narrow break in a storm system. Fraser put the story in its simplest terms. 'Eisenhower said, 'We're going on the advice of this meteorologist.' Years later, when Walter Cronkite asked Eisenhower how he'd pulled it off, Ike's answer was blunt. 'We just had better weathermen than the Germans did.'
Fallon also praised Fraser's Whaleco-star Sadie Sink, who is currently playing Juliet opposite Noah Jupe in a West End production of Romeo and Juliet in London. Fraser didn't hesitate: 'She's playing the part she was born to,' he said. 'It was written by William Shakespeare.'
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