Universal Pictures will unwrap a brand new version of its dusty franchise, "The Mummy."
The studio has signed "Prometheus" screenwriter Jon Spaihts to reboot its action/comedy series - with more of a focus on the famed movie monster's horror roots, Variety reported.
This marks the fourth time that Universal has gone back to the vault to reboot the franchise that began in 1932 with Boris Karloff as the titular reanimated pharaoh. The most recent incarnation was kicked off by 1999's 'The Mummy,' which starred Brendan Fraser as the heroic foil, spawned two sequels.
It's been less than four years since 2008's "The Mummy: Tomb of the Emperor" was cursed with generally poor reviews. The movie's $400 million worldwide box office haul, however, shows that there is life left in the undead.
Spaihts is a hot Hollywood property, fresh off writing Summit's "The Darkest Hour", about an alien invasion in Moscow, and the upcoming "Prometheus", rumored to be .
"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," Spaihts told Variety.
I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT this the other day I was like "The Mummy needs to make a comeback because the 3rd movie was too lackluster" lol
