![]() ![]() If Rachel Weisz didn’t return for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor due to concerns over its quality, they proved prophetic, as the film received scathing reviews upon release. Shooting the movie would’ve entailed spending five months in China, and required her to immediately begin filming right after production wrapped on director Rian Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom. Of all the possible explanations for her not to return, scheduling conflicts would seem to be the most likely. ![]() ![]() In it, Weisz said that she had never even read the script, and that the scheduling of its production is what put her off the project. The U.K.-based ES Magazine had an interview with her in the Nov. While it sometimes gets overlooked in hindsight, Weisz herself offered a more mundane explanation than any of the above reasons for her lack of participation in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. However, she starred in two other films around the same time, which casts a bit of doubt on that theory. A representative of Rachel Weisz told Digital Spy that she stepped away from The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor as she had a newborn son, and didn’t want to be away from him for an extended period to shoot the next movie in The Mummy franchise. ![]()
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