Like it or not, Mummy 4 will come!

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor failed to impress.

The third installment of The Mummy came out unwrapped and unimpressive to say the least. It will most probably go down as one of the oh so many boring trilogies. One would have wondered if that was the end for the tomb villains but director Rob Cohen says NO!

If you have not seen The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor as yet, you ought to stop here (but I know you won’t) because we are going to let you in on some plots from the movie itself that just might pave the path to the fourth in the series.

As pointed out at the MTV Movies blog,

Brendan Frasier as an immortal hero up against an immortal villain is just one of many ideas “Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” director Rob Cohen wants to explore in another installment of the blockbuster series, he told MTV News, insisting that a fourth installment is all but guaranteed if audiences respond well to “Mummy 3.”

“Rick, because he was treated by the pool of eternal life, Rick is now immortal. I’d love to explore how that plays out for him,” Cohen said. “Another spoiler, Jonathan [John Hannah] winds up with the artifact in this film and he doesn’t realize, nor do we, what its powers are. In my mind, that artifact still has a lot of prizes in it, the eye of Shangri La, this big diamond.”

 On several occasions prior to and after the release of the movie, both Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello had hinted that a fourth installment is on the cards and might take place some where in the Amazon or Peru. Mere coincidence that these claims are in line with the ending of the movie where Jonathan has decided to move to Peru with the Eye of Shangri-La, a place he claims has no mummies. After he leaves, a caption appears on the screen stating that a few weeks later mummies were discovered in Peru?

Like it or not, we’ll see a fourth movie!