Mummy 4 to be set South of the Border

Posted by bob in Films, News on August 6th, 2008

Mummy director Rob Cohen told MTV News about his thoughts on where the franchise can go after the current installment in the series.  After all, they managed to move all the major elements from Egypt to China so it shows the themes are global in scope.

“Rick [O’Connell], 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 told the network. “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.”

Stars Mario Bello and Brendan Fraser both feel the fourth film will reunite them and send the family to South America, either Peru or the Amazon. Cohen confirmed he was thinking either Peru or Mexico, no doubt dealing with Incan or Mayan cultures.

“They have a lot of mummies. The Aztec culture had a lot of mummies and some of their mummy designs for the Foundation Army were taken from Mexican mummies that they have found,” he added. “So I think that somehow that might make the basis of a good story.”

While directors and stars are happy to talk about a fourth film, Universal has not confirmed anything.  The new film opened to mostly poor reviews and the first weekend take was not what they had hoped for.  The results this weekend may be indicative of whether we will see the O’Connell fighting beasties ever again.