"Prometheus" Scribe Rebooting 'The Mummy'

Jason Spaihts, who co-wrote Prometheus with Damon Lindelof, has been tapped by Universal to write the screenplay for a rebooting of The Mummy franchise. In spite of often confused plots and cheesy computer effects the three modern Mummy movies were remarkably consistent with each earning over $400 million.

Spaihts told Variety, “I see it as the kind of opportunity I had with Prometheus to go back to a franchise’s roots in dark, scary source material and simultaneously open it up to an epic scale we haven’t seen before.”

Given the success of the three modern Mummy movies that debut in 1999, 2001, and 2008 respectively, the chances of another Mummy movie getting made are pretty good.