The Wheel of Time star Laia Costa has landed her next movie role in The Mummy remake.
Evil Dead Rise's Lee Cronin is bringing this new interpretation of Universal's classic horror monster to the big screen, and The Hollywood Reporter is claiming that Costa has nabbed a pretty big role in it.
She'll be playing one half of a married couple alongside Midsommar and Transformers: Age of Extinction's Jack Reynor.
With their daughter, they'll get involved with an evil mummy, and that's as much about the plot as we know for now.
However, Cronin has teased that, as far as the tone goes, "this will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before.
"I'm digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening."
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The new revival will be for studio New Line, with Cronin's banner Doppelgängers, and the horror-genre power duo of Atomic Monster and Blumhouse – famous for M3GAN – teaming up to produce.
Although this version is intended to set itself apart from previous incarnations, Brendan Fraser — who starred in three films between 1999 and 2008 — has stated that he'd love to return to the franchise in some capacity.
"I don't know how it would work. But I'd be open to it if someone came up with the right conceit," he said.
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He did say, when speaking about the 2017 version with Tom Cruise, that he thinks The Mummy should be a "thrill ride" rather than a straightforward "terrifying and scary" time, so maybe he won't.
The Wheel of Time recently returned for a third season on Prime Video, ranking highly on the streaming service's chart and garnering plenty of positive reviews from critics.
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