We reported many months ago that Total Recall director Len Wiseman would be directing a reboot of The Mummy franchise at Universal and last we'd heard, a script was being written by Prometheus writer Jon Spaihts. Vulture is now reporting that Universal is so eager to get a script ready to shoot this year, that they've hired The Hunger Games screenwriter Billy Ray to pen a completely different script for the project. An insider told them that both scripts will probably end up fused together: "My suspicion is that one of them will be a 'structure-and-body' man, and one's going to be a 'character-and-dialogue' man — and that they'll then just [combine] them together into one script, crediting both writers." Both scripts will be set in present day....
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