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Rob Cohen Reveals "The Mummy 4" Ideas
"The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" director Rob Cohen spoke with MTV News about a possible fourth installment in the franchise. The interview contains lots of spoilers, so if you haven't seen "Dragon Emperor," read at your own risk.
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Brendan Fraser as an immortal hero up against an immortal villain is just one of many ideas Cohen wants to explore in "The Mummy 4," insisting that a fourth installment is all but guaranteed if audiences respond well to "Mummy 3."
"Rick, because he was treated by the pool of eternal life, Rick is now immortal. I'd love to explore how that plays out for him," Cohen said. "Another spoiler, Jonathan [John Hannah] winds up with the artifact in this film and he doesn't realize, nor do we, what its powers are. In my mind, that artifact still has a lot of prizes in it, the eye of Shangri La, this big diamond."
Cohen also spoke about the geographic location he would like to take the next movie, revealing that Peru or Mexico would be possible settings. "What I'm really happy about is that, by taking 'The Mummy' out of Egypt and putting it in China, by exploring a different approach to the quest for immortality, we now have it clear that the 'Mummy' franchise can travel," he said. "Now we know that if we want to go to Mexico or we want to go to Peru, we can because there's a cultural truth there of the mummies and these beautiful cultures."
"They have a lot of mummies. The Aztec culture had a lot of mummies and some of their mummy designs for the Foundation Army were taken from Mexican mummies that they have found," he added. "So I think that somehow that might make the basis of a good story."
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