First Images of Maria Bello from 'The Mummy 3'
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Now is it just me or does Maria Bello look an awful lot like Geena Davis in this picture? Rob Cohen's production blog for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor has posted the first picture of Bello as Evy (the role famously dumped by Rachel Weisz after two films). Just last month, Chris had reported on one of the first images to emerge from the production and for lack of a better word, it was pretty. Not much to see, but there was definitely some style there. Plus, let's be honest, it's not like expectations for this flick are all that high anyway, so I'll take what I can get thank you very much. As you probably know, The Mummy 3 will be heading in a different direction this time around, placing the action in China with martial arts master Jet Li filling in as the bad guy.When Bello had spoken with Sci Fi Wire in September, she was quoted as saying her Evy, "...has the same name, but she's a very different character than Rachel played. She's a bad-ass action chick. I had to train a lot. I had to do wushu, a martial-art form, some kickboxing, swordfighting, rifle training for a couple of months before we even started shooting" A far cry from Weisz's plucky librarian, but as much as I like the idea of "bad-ass action chicks", I still think recasting the same role with a different actress was a bit of a mistake. According to Cohen, Li has just arrived on location in Montreal to film some of the more climatic battle scenes with returning hero Brendan Fraser (as Rick O'Connell -- who's also pictured in the above link) before moving on to shoot in China. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is scheduled for release on August 1st, 2008.
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10-06-2007 @ 10:03AM
Diego said...
I do agree that the recasting for the same role is rather dubious. They could have easily written her off, and taken in Maria Bello as a new character. There wasn't much in Evy's character that was in the past two films that were particularly memorable.
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10-06-2007 @ 11:00AM
Carl said...
Sorry Diego but Rachel Weisz was the heart and soul of the mummy films and she made the role of Evy. For One, i can't blame her one bit for not wanting to come back, the script sounds awful and second, Maria Bello is such a lightweight as an actress and so miscast in this role that its not even funny.
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10-06-2007 @ 11:40AM
Paige said...
I loved the first two Mummy films and i thought Rachel Weisz was amazing as Evy and she gave those films repeatability and class. Judging by what i have been reading about Mummy 3 so far, Rachel did the right thing by not coming back, the movie looks really bad and Maria Bello is a pretty lousy choice for a replacement in the role of Evy.
I have no hope for this film to be any good.
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10-07-2007 @ 12:29PM
Kathleen said...
Recast is a crime. Bello is no Evelyn just like Im mad that Maggie Gyllenhaal is taking Holmes place in Batman. Its so icky!
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10-07-2007 @ 1:20PM
Raquel said...
I too loved the first two movies of "The Mummy" and I applaud Rachel Weisz in the role of Evy O'Connell, but hearing that she will not be taking on the role for the third time, I won't be surprised that this film will be a flop. She was the one who actually started and maintained the interest of all "The Mummy" movies. She's the one who provided the "Archeologist" role while Brendan Fraser was the one who provided the "Action Hero". Together, they were the movie. Without one or the other, sadly to say, this will not turn out to be a great movie like the other two.
Brendan Fraser is not the "Archeologist", his son in the movie can not replace the "Archeologist role", but just be an assist in the role and sorry to say, Bello is most definitely no Evy O'Connell.
I seriously can't wait to see what the final reviews are going to be for this movie. I will make my prediction now and say that this movie one a rating of 1-10, 1 being the worst and 10 being the best, this movie is going to get a kindly 5.
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10-07-2007 @ 2:22PM
Sarina said...
Im not a fan of Weisz but its distracting to see swapping of actors in tv and movies. Its so soap opera.
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10-20-2007 @ 7:07AM
MONZ said...
I like brendan-rachel tandem...
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