Brendan Fraser is going to return in another installment of The Mummy. Of course it wouldn’t be the same without Rachel Weisz, so I guess he is a single dad now. But news swings our way that Luke Ford will be playing all-growed-up Alex O’Connell.
up-and-coming Aussie actor Luke Ford (THE BLACK BALLOON) has taken the role as Fraser’s kid, Alex. The story will look at what happens when Alex discovers the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin who awakens as a shape-shifter that was for some reason cursed by a female wizard.
Now if anyone had a clue who this Ford guy is, we might get some excitement about the role. I don’t know a thing about him. All Google comes up with is an opinionated blogger obsessed with porn. I don’t think that is the same guy.
I am still wigged about the idea of his kid in this movie. Unlike the other kids we don’t like in movies, this one was in the sequel so it kinda makes sense to have him in part three. But it seems like Hollywood is all about adding kids to franchises that don’t need em. Superman has a kid, (and as if we need another reason to compare them) Indiana Jones gets a kid, and even Batman is going to have a kid in Dark Knight.
Ok, I made that last one up. Exhale. Get your mouse off that comment button.
They should had said the mother left town or something instead of replacing her. To top it off they choose Jet Li for the bad guy, Please! Jet Li is to good for this, he could kill them all and end the show. (smile)
But I’ll check it out and see what happen.
I’d rather like rachel weisz…
I guess when I say pretty ugly it means.. ‘quite ugly indeed’. I mean, considering Rachel Weisz as the mother and Brendan Fraser as the father, and we get THAT?
Maybe he will do the role justice by acting but I dunoo, he just looks all wrong.
Never understood the phrase “pretty ugly”. Is that like the cute type of ugly? We’ll just have to see if it’ll be worth something or not. Plus people do change how they lookto fill a persona, but then he may stay that pale color and think everything he experienced as a child was a childhood fantasy. Who knows.
This’ll suck. I wouldn’t have seen this no matter who was in it. Mummy 2 was a godawful flick, and Mummy 3 won’t be any better. It’s so lame. How many fucking times can one guy unleash a talking corpse before the audience says enough already?
Ok he looks too pale to live.
I know the kid in the 2nd movie was very pale, but one would think, given the interest of the kid of all things historical, he would have more tan digging those tombs and exploring those piramids and all that shit. Huh.
And he’s.. pretty ugly.. Sorry!
I don’t have any intrest in this film now I think anyway. The only reason why I cared at all was that Jet Li was the villian. Been wanting to see him play a villian again for years now, but still, the more I think about it the more it’s seems like a bad idea.
Li’s badassness comes from his Kung Fu and everyone knows him from that. To insted just have him play an evil mummy who you want be able to understand very well when he talks and all his cool factor, if any, will come from CGI effects, is such a waist. And shape shifting being the most appealing? Ya LAME. We saw that enuff all CGI flare mummies in the first 2 films.
Would it really kill them to pull somthing original out of they’re ass, exspeshly since by some miracle they actualy got Li to play a mummy. They’re just going to screw up the chance of making him the most insanly awesome mummy EVER. This movie is just going to be the same dull crap all over again.
What the hell? Batman has a kid, this is very unsettling…..
Three reason this movie will suck:
1.) Rob Cohen is directing. Nuff said.
2.) Jet li as the Mummy. That’s gonna be a pretty damned short, uncharismatic and unintimidating Mummy then. I would have cast Ken Watanabe or Chow Yun Fat instead.
3.) Stephen Sommers isn’t writing the script. He does enormous research on the stuff he writes, he created the Mummy franchise and knows how to exectute this kind of “high-concept” adventure. A lot of people bitch and moan about him (mostly for no good reason) and sure you can say what you want about Sommers but he’s a damned good writer and director. He may not make instant classics but he at least tells the story he sets out to tell and does it well.
Michell Yeoh was a good casting decision for the sorceress, though Li Gong would have been my choice.