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3 more sequels coming to "The Mummy" franchise
March 11, 2008
Universal Pictures is planning three more sequels to the film The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, with new leading lady Maria Bello set to topline. After a long hiatus, one of cinema's greatest archaeologists is making his way back to the big screen. But if Rick O'Connell's leading lady looks a little different, it's not the age: It actually is a different person. And that suits Maria Bello just fine, the actress told MTV News, saying she was eager to step into the role of Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell, made famous in the first two "Mummy" films by Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz. "Let me tell you, I like the other two movies. I love this movie," Bello said of "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" from the blue carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards. "It's so dynamic and like nothing you've ever seen. [Director] Rob Cohen has so changed the franchise." The biggest change of all, of course, being Bello herself. The blond actress understands that comparisons to Weisz — who reportedly refused to sign onto the sequel due to script issues — are inevitable. But despite the fact that she plays the same character, Bello insists that the roles are not that similar. "I think Rachel is so brilliant, and she was beautiful in that part, but they wrote my character so differently, I felt like it was a totally different woman," Bello said. "She has the same name, but she's quite a different character." Part of that manifests itself in more action-oriented challenges, Bello said. While the official plot synopsis centers on father-son duo Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Alex (Luke Ford) waking the shape-shifting mummy Emperor Han (Jet Li), it's Bello, not the rough-and-tumble gentlemen, who gets the film's first kick-ass fight sequence, the actress revealed. "In the beginning of the movie I do a sword fight with an invisible mummy," Bello said. "I had to be on wires and do sword work. It took days to do, and it was so much fun. I would do flips on the wire and I'd land down and be like a little kid." Bello admits to having so much fun, in fact, that she's looking forward to three more "Mummy" movies, confessing that she's already signed on for a whole trilogy of sequels. "I don't know when, but it's going," she said. "[There will] absolutely be 'The Mummy 4.' " And when there is, Bello says she's already got an idea for where it can film. "Something that takes place in the Amazon," Bello suggested. "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" opens August 1. 
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Mummy meets Mortal Kombat!
Fun times.
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i'm one of them, i'm afraid .. i cant make it through either of them without falling asleep. the most unengaging flicks ever (for me) i cant invest anything into them .. dont like the storys, the acting, the humor .. which is a pity because Fraser is a likeable guy .. i just dont like anything he's in - other than Gods and Monsters
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