Maria Bello to Replace Rachel Weisz in The Mummy 3

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Source: Variety

Monday, May 14th, 2007

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Maria Bello will replace Rachel Weisz in the third installment of The Mummy, according to Variety.

She joins Brendan Fraser, Luke Ford, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh in the Rob Cohen-directed film for Universal Pictures.

Bello will play Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell, the adventuress played in the first two films by Weisz. After Weisz declined to reprise, Cohen and the studio cast a wide net for a replacement.

Written by Smallville creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, The Mummy 3 brings the O'Connells and their full-grown son (Ford) to the forbidden tombs of China and the Himalayas, where they battle a shape-shifting mummy, a former Chinese emperor (Li) cursed by a wizard (Yeoh).

The film is expected to be released in the summer of 2008.

7 Comments & Responses

lucklucky

November 14th, 2007 5:12pm

maria bello is just not suited for the role, i wonder who chose her.

Jel.a.i

July 23rd, 2007 10:24pm

me too.. i don't think it will be that good if one of the main character was replaced.. original is still the best!!!.. brendan fraser and rachel weisz has a good chemistry,they look good together... and that is one of the factor why the previous sequel of this movie is a blockbuster film...

Michael5

May 15th, 2007 11:53am

I also don't think it's going to work well without Rachel. Unless they go amongst a different story-line.

sunrider

May 14th, 2007 9:20pm

ya know if rachel wouldnt do it..why continue with that chaerecter involved...? chanceing charecters like that it tough to get away with..i dont think it would work well with out her

Silk

May 14th, 2007 8:20pm

Bello is the sizzle shizzel, Weisz can shave my scud.
Michelle Yeoh is even more sizzle.

ShadowSC

May 14th, 2007 8:14pm

It just won't be the same with Racheal Weisz.

May 14th, 2007 8:59am

Bello is hot.

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