But I'm still more-anxiously awaiting the Goldsmith/Mummy 2 announcement more than anything else this year. They've already started shooting in Morocco (earlier this month, in fact), so some kind of announcement can't be far away.

NP: American Ninjas and Fighters - "Avenging Force Suite" George S. Clinton ****/*****

WWF's Rock is playing um...The Scorpion King (I think) in "Mummy 2," and I guess people were so impressed, the wanted to build a whole movie around his character. Go figure.

NP: Azusa Pacific University Choir and Orchestra: "This We Believe"

dantoris, I think you summed up my feelings toward a sequel to The Mummy perfectly, with the exception of adding the words "steaming pile of horse manure" somewhere.

Shaun

Anyone else besides me think this is because Stephen Sommers originally wanted him to score Deep Rising and took this has an opportunity to work with him?

Who was it that said "...there are really no NEW ideas."? Well, it's crap like this that makes me hate Hollywood for wasting my time for inadvertently hearing this news, for spending money on such a two dimensional venture and for trying to ressurrect a stalling movie career of a barely talented actress......GIMMIE A ****ING BREAK!!!!!!!!

I doubt Goldsmith would veto ALL sequels -- hey, U.S. MARSHALS was one, and he didn't even write the original FUGITIVE (I think he did MARSHALS as a favor for his editor-turned-director buddy Stuart Baird, who also hired him for his debut EXECUTIVE DECISION) -- anyway, I kind of think at this stage of his career, he's not likely to do many more pictures that will even HAVE sequels. Except for the Trek franchise, of course. I don't think he'd want to do a BASIC INSTINCT sequel in a million years, even though he was (rightfully) proud of the first one. Even if BASIC INSTINCT II is made, it's bound to be such a boondoggle, only Goldsmith's traditionally relentless nose for picking BAD MOVIES would convince him to do it ... frankly, I hope he stays off it. I'd like to hear him do MUMMY RETURNS, though, the settings and trappings sound just different enough that he could possibly have real fun with it. But he feels he didn't the first time, soooo ...

heh, why don't they follow the example of ALIENS and call the next one MUMMIES? (There is a second one, isn't there, that character played by The Rock, but maybe he's just a sorcerer, that Scorpion King mentioned above. I haven't been paying that much attention.)

Oh yes, Marian: Michael Douglas in BASIC INSTINCT II? Never happen.

Without knowing ANYTHING about the existing story, let me speculate: Sharon Stone's character will fall afoul of a YOUNGER detective, played by some up-and-coming younger actor ... Billy Crudup, say. He's figured out what she's up to -- she killed Michael Douglas's character years ago, and published another roman-a-clef about it. An impulsive soul still attempting to cope with the premature loss of his policeman father years ago (he died during a high-speed chase across the Golden Gate Bridge), Crudup decides to buck his superior officer (played by Brian Dennehy, whose character is the brother of the George Dzundza character from the original BASIC INSTINCT, and has his own reasons to hate and fear Stone, but insists nothing can be proven, and Crudup should forget about it.) Crudup leaves the force and assumes a secret identity, shadowing Stone at high-class parties hoping to catch her attention.

Although she's made millions as a crime novelist, she's socked it all away to a Swiss bank. However, with the help of his spunky computer hacker partner, played by Janeane Garafalo (who has an unrequited crush on Crudup), they're able to find out all the information about her account, AND her prior life as a dominatrix call girl to the Emir of the Sub-Saharan Djbjdbitjdk state, the tiniest but most oil-rich in all the Middle East. The Emir Djbjkwckldjkjikizjd (played by Anthony Quinn) has an estranged son (Vincent Perez) who leads a gang of radical fringe terrorists (the terrorists are played by Tony Shalhoub, Hank Azaria, and rogue AWOL Marine Jake Busey.) Perez is aware of his father's prior assignation with Stone, but the Emir doesn't know that she slept with Perez as well, and Perez is still infatuated with her. The Emir, however, wants her dead, because of all the gold bullion she stole from him years ago, so he orders Perez and company to track her to San Francisco. They find her, but she eludes them after a high-speed chase along the waterfront.

Maybe Jerry will take this, expanding his themes like he did in
Rambo II, but I doubt it.

I’ve always been impressed with Billy Crudup. (He says it is
pronounced Crude-up.) Quite despicable in Without Limits
and Inventing the Abbotts, but he has charisma.

hmm, the only thing I remember from that movie was Jennifer Connelly. sweet, luscious, Jenn...um, oops. I've said too much.....