Genre: Horror.
Studio:
Universal Pictures.
Production Company:
Unknown.
Project Phase: Greenlighted.
Who's In It:
Brendan Fraser; Rachel Weisz; Mark Lindsay Chapman; John Hannah.
Who's Making It:
Stephen Sommers (Director, Screenwriter); Francis Ford Coppola, James V. Hart (Producers?); a
remake of the 1932 film The Mummy.
Premise: Awakened from his long slumber in his pyramid tomb, the animated corpse of a long-dead mummy re-animates to stop the plundering of his grave.
Release Date: May 7, 1999.
Comments: This project would be the third remake of classic horror films by Coppola and Hart (their previous ones being Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.)
Rumors: See Scoop Feedback.
Scoop Feedback:
November 4, 1996... According to a report published recently in the Boston Herald, there is another 'Mummy' film in the works separate from the Anne Rice adaptation. This film is to be produced by Francis Ford Coppola and James V. Hart, who teamed previously for Bram Stoker's Dracula and for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The new Mummy picture is not be based on the idea of an Egyptian mummy but, like the other two revamped classics from Coppola and Hart, will be based on the original novel which was set in Ireland. [Scoop submitted anonymously; originally appeared in the Boston Herald.]
December 29, 1997... Brendan Fraser will play an American in the French Foreign Legion who faces off against the Mummy. Looks like the project is warming up after nearly five years of its own death-like slumber, with Stephen Sommers set to direct after his next foray into horror (this time in water) surfaces early next year (Deep Rising). [Scoops sent swaddled in ancient cloth by 'sexyboy 4', Louis, and anonymously.]
September 1, 1998... Jerry Goldsmith is again composing music for this Stephen Sommers project. [Brought to you by the grave-robbing 'C'.]
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