Talk of The Mummy 3 has been around for some time, way back in December I wrote about a story suggesting the new plot concerning 1940's China...and not very many Mummies from Egypt. However word is out that the film is a go.

According to Moviehole through the ever cool Cinema Blend, Oded Fehr who played Ardeth Bay in the first two, won't be returning and he says...

..."I'm not involved [in "The Mummy 3"]. The person that wrote it, created it, tells me they're doing a third one. They were writing it [when I spoke to him], so I don't know where it is now. I believe it's only going to involve Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz's characters, of the old movies, and everyone else [in it] is going to be new.

Still, it looks like that 1940 China setting is to be. From my previous writing incarnation and a quote from Cinematical way back:

The new Mummy film will indeed depart the traditional Egyptian setting and head for the Orient – specifically, 1940’s China...At the forefront of the story is the mighty (but very dead) Emperor Qin Shihuang, who is interested in…wait for it…world domination, which he plans to achieve by activating...his enormous army, which is handily still around thanks to a curse which turned them into terracotta and preserved them throughout the centuries.

Mmm...I thought that was daft then, and I think it's daft now. Mummy - Chinese Terracotta Army...Mmmm...Shouldn't it be The Ornament?

They're right though, would Weisz even say yes to this considering her status now, and if she does can you imagine the paycheck?