Some time in the past ten or twenty years, cheesy old monster movies became works of art. Somehow, movie characters who once gleefully met the likes of Abbot & Costello have been elevated to “untouchable” status. So there’s nothing the movie snob loves more than hatin’ on Stephen Sommers, the only guy left out there who seems to realize they’re cheesy movie monsters and is willing to actually have a little bit of fun with them, as Bud & Lou intended.
Well count me out. I’ve had a blast with every flick Sommers has done so far. Count me happy to hear he’ll be making another Mummy movie. Coming Soon reports that Fraser has not in any way confirmed or announced that Mummy 3 is happening, even though he did mention a script exists. I know, confusing. But apparently even though Fraser says he isn’t allowed to announce that Mummy 3 is happening, he’s announcing it anyway.
Of course maybe he only mentioned it to get our attention, so he could talk about his next project Children of Guangxi. It’s a movie being helmed by director Robert Spottiswoode, who in addition to lending his name to a character in Team America also probably took a lot of beatings when he was a kid. The script is by Crash’s Paul Haggis about a journalist in 1937 Shanghai, so it’s no doubt a serious movie instead of more of this sill badly CGI rendered scorpion fighting stuff from Fraser.
