We finally know when the Mummy franchise will reawaken.

Universal Pictures has officially added the next installment of the adventure franchise to its release calendar, giving the film a theatrical release date of May 19, 2028.

The Mummy 4, which has yet to receive an official title, will see Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz return to play Rick and Evelyn O’Connell. The duo first starred together in 1999’s The Mummy and reprised their roles in 2001’s The Mummy Returns. Fraser came back for a third installment, 2008’s The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, but Weisz did not join him. In her absence, Maria Bello played Evelyn.

The upcoming Mummy sequel will be helmed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who previously directed the fifth and sixth Scream movies as well as Ready or Not and its upcoming sequel, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.

The script will be written by David Coggeshall, who penned Orphan: First Kill and the Family Plan films.

Fraser previously teased that the new sequel will fulfill the dream he’s had for the Mummy franchise for more than two decades. “The one I wanted to make is forthcoming,” he told the Associated Press in November . “And I’ve been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It’s time to give the fans what they want.”

The Whale star said that Tomb of the Dragon Emperor wasn’t quite what he envisioned for the next Mummy movie. “The one I wanted to make was never made,” he said. “The third one was a model of … how can I say this to the AP reporter? NBC had the rights to broadcast the Olympics that year. So they put two together and we went to China.”

Though the upcoming sequel will mark Fraser’s first movie in the series in 20 years, Universal’s Mummy franchise hasn’t been completely dormant since Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The studio previously revived the property with a 2017 reboot starring Tom Cruise (simply titled The Mummy) that was intended to launch an interconnected Dark Universe.

The Mummy universe has also persisted in a series of spinoffs revolving around the character Mathayus, also known as the Scorpion King, who was first played by Dwayne Johnson in The Mummy Returns. Johnson headlined the theatrical spinoff The Scorpion King in 2002, and the franchise received four more direct-to-video installments with other actors in the lead role, the latest of which was released in 2018.

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