Arnold Vosloo says he’s signed on to play Imhotep again in The Mummy: Book of the Dead, and the plan is for him to look the way he did at 38, around the time he made the first movie.
He left the filmmakers’ method a mystery. The one piece of Imhotep’s return that Vosloo was willing to give away when Jack Carr asked about the new Mummy movie was that somebody reads from the Book of the Dead again.
Vosloo was on Carr’s Danger Close podcast to talk about The Terminal List, which brought him back to his native South Africa to film. When the conversation turned to The Mummy, he said he’d just signed his deal. Brendan Fraser and the others were already shooting in London, and he expected to join them in November.
It’s been 25 years since Vosloo last played the high priest opposite Fraser and Rachel Weisz in The Mummy Returns. Fraser and Weisz are back as Rick and Evelyn for The Mummy: Book of the Dead, from the directors of Ready or Not. The U.S. theatrical release is set for October 15, 2027.
