25 Years Later, The Mummy Is Headed Back To Theaters

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, The Mummy will be coming back to theaters for a limited run starting April 26. Originally released in 1999, the Stephen Sommers-directed film starred Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Arnold Vosloo.

Set in 1926, The Mummy follows a group of adventurers looking to claim a long-lost Egyptian treasure, but the gang accidentally awakens Imhotep, the ancient high priest of Egypt who was sentenced to a gnarly fate for several heinous crimes. Reawakened, the mummified Imhotep goes on a killing spree to regenerate his form and unleashes plagues upon Egypt as he seeks to resurrect his one true love.

The Mummy would make $416 million at the global box office and spawned multiple sequels, spin-offs, and even an animated series. The Mummy Returns hit theaters in 2001 and added WWE star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to its cast--as well as a very weird CGI model of him--and the series came to an end in 2008 with The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor--if you don't count the weird Scorpion King spin-off movies.

Years later, Universal Pictures would reboot The Mummy as part of its Dark Universe cinematic universe, but the action film starring Tom Cruise received mixed reviews and was considered a box office flop. Fraser--who almost died for real while filming The Mummy--has expressed in interviews that he'd be interested in reprising his role as Rick O'Connell in another Mummy movie.

The actor has made a big comeback over the last couple of years, earning an Oscar in 2023 for The Whale and he featured in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.