{"id":781016,"date":"2026-05-08T02:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781016\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:45:14","slug":"brendan-fraser-is-doing-my-best-to-get-in-shape-for-the-mummy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781016\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Fraser Is &#8220;Doing My Best&#8221; To Get In Shape For &#8216;The Mummy 4&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brendan-fraser\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brendan-fraser\" data-tag=\"brendan-fraser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Fraser<\/a> prepares to send another mummified baddie to its tomb, he\u2019s getting back in touch with his adventure-prone character Rick O\u2019Connell after 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing news that the Oscar winner is reprising his role in the fourth installment of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-mummy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-mummy\" data-tag=\"the-mummy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Mummy<\/a> franchise, Fraser noted that he\u2019s \u201cdoing my best\u201d to get in shape for the Universal sequel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWell, we\u2019re gonna get the band back together,\u201d he confirmed on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FallonTonight\/status\/2052238487743512809\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a>. \u201cThe only way to do it. So, we are going to give the audience what they have been bothering all of us for, for the last twenty-whatever years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFraser added of the long-anticipated sequel, \u201cI was hopeful for a long while, and then I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if they are.\u2019 Then other Mummy movies got made. But listen, what we\u2019re gonna do is saddle back up, go back to the locations\u2014I should probably stop talking like this, because I don\u2019t want to give everything away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cHowever, please wish me luck. I\u2019m doing my best to get this 57-year-old gear in shape,\u201d he told Fallon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn February, Deadline reported that Fraser and Rachel Weisz <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/the-mummy-release-date-brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-1236714578\/\">will reprise their roles<\/a> in a new The Mummy movie for Universal, directed by Radio Silence from a script by David Coggeshall. It\u2019s expected to premiere May 19, 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFraser starred in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001) with Weisz. Although he returned for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Weisz sat out that sequel with Maria Bello taking over her role as Evelyn Carnahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Brendan Fraser prepares to send another mummified baddie to its tomb, he\u2019s getting back in touch with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":781017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[113603,171,53,38655,187011,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-781016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-brendan-fraser","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-the-mummy","12":"tag-the-mummy-4","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}