Fraser talks about The Mummy Sequel

By Azad October 23, 2000 10:45 AM

In talks with IMDB, Brendan Fraser stated that the upcoming sequel to the previous Indiana Jones style genre hit, The Mummy Returns will top the original 1999 The Mummy. Fraser will once again play the role of adventurer Rick O'Connell in the sequel, which is set to hit theatres in May 2001.

"I'm going to go out on a limb and say this one is going to be much better," Fraser said. "We're not doing a remake. We're taking what worked in the first one and making that even better."

Strangely enough, Fraser said he never met his co-star, pro wrestler The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, who plays the villainous Scorpion King. "In Morocco, where we filmed, The Rock is a myth, a legend and, in our movie, one scary guy. I never got to meet him, because he left Morocco before I got there, but all the Moroccans were in awe of him. The Rock has been cyber-scanned. It's going to be really fun and chilling for the audience." Yeah, I'd imagine... those WWF guys scare me enough already.

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Posted by sKillBot (travis@pulley.org) on October 23, 2000 12:11 PM

That movie was a lot of fun. Reminded me more of high budget Army of Darkness than Indiana Jones though.

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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on October 23, 2000 12:59 PM

The simularities are great... I was waiting for him to say "hail to the king, baby" but the closest we got was "Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world" that's pretty bruce campbellish, eh?

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Posted by Acheron (denny@dtheatre.com) on October 25, 2000 5:50 AM

That movie was one of the worst movies out of that summer. I don't see why everyone's going shit faced nuts over it.

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Posted by Delcar (delcar@hotmail.com) on November 20, 2000 2:11 PM

The ultimate "gamer" movie. The hero is prepared to be deep in the ****, they unhesitantly run over zombified townspeople, and DON'T spend their time setting themselves up to be victims. Lots of fun!

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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 25, 2000 8:28 PM

I loved the first movie and what I what I've seen by the trailers the sequel is even better!