That’s right folks Rachel Weisz is dragging her feet with The Mummy Three. She hasn’t even read the script yet. The people over at movieweb.com give us this:
Last week, we reported that Brendan Frasier is set to reprise his role as the Foreign Legion soldier Rick O’Connell, featured in the Universal franchise The Mummy.
The script, written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville) re-imagines the character in another epic adventure. The studio has made an offer to Joe Johnston, (Jurassic Park III) to direct the film being readied to begin shooting early next year.
EcranLarge.com reports that Rachel Weisz mentioned a few words about her possible involvement in the project: “I know there’s a new script but I haven’t read it yet. Nothing’s definite yet and should the film be done, it’s probably going to happen next summer. And if so, I would definitely like to be in it“
Hum…interesting. I mentioned a few days ago on a post about Brendan Fraser coming back for The Mummy Three that Weisz hasn’t signed on yet. Now we learn that she hasn’t even looked at a script. She’s being very pleasant about the summertime shoot being good with her schedule but I really wonder if she will actually make it into this movie.
It is my guess that Weisz wants to keep her options open. She’ll do this movie if nothing better comes along. But the chances of nothing better than a third installment of a mummy movie coming along are slim. And besides Angelina Jolie I don’t know many newly Oscar awarded actresses that are looking for action roles. Most of the time they are hoping for easier shoots with challenging roles, not harder shoots with roles that they’ve already played before.
Of course Weisz will be offered a lot of money, and she, like Fraser may just like acting in this sort of movie. But my bet is that she will get away from this movie faster than you can flick the sand from a beach towel.
