It’s not a Mummy movie if somebody doesn’t do the one thing you’re never supposed to do: read from the Book of the Dead. Arnold Vosloo just confirmed that’s exactly what’s happening.

Speaking with Jack Carr on the Danger Close Podcast, Vosloo said the quiet part — and the contract — out loud. “I can report now… I just signed my deal,” he said. “We are doing another Mummy. Brendan and them are shooting now in London. And the character Imhotep is back, that I play. I’ll be going there in November. The first time I’ve admitted… I’m back in the next Mummy. Imhotep is back. Somebody wakes me up… they read from the Book of the Dead… and there we are.”

That’s our first real look at the plot of The Mummy: Book of the Dead, and also a pretty good explanation of the title. Somebody cracks the book, Imhotep gets up, and the O’Connells have a problem again.

The gang’s all here

This was already shaping up as a reunion. Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Kevin J. O’Connor, and Oded Fehr are all coming back. For Weisz, per Fangoria, it’s her first time in the franchise since 2001’s The Mummy Returns. Vosloo was the missing piece — the guy who played the actual mummy in the first two movies — and now he’s signed.

“The script’s very good. I’m excited,” Vosloo said. Then he added the part that’s going to launch a thousand YouTube essays: “They’re gonna make me look like I did when I was 38 years old, when I made the first one.”

So, yes, they are going to make 2027 Imhotep look like 1999 Imhotep. He didn’t walk through the VFX pipeline on a podcast, and we are not going to pretend we know which buttons they’re pressing. He just said they’re going to make him look 38 again. We’ll see it when we see it.

What we actually know

The Mummy: Book of the Dead is directed by the Radio Silence duo, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, from a script by David Coggeshall. It’s the first Mummy movie since 2008’s Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which, let’s be honest, is a sentence a lot of us have been waiting to put in the past tense. Fangoria reports this one is a direct sequel to The Mummy Returns, and that it disregards Dragon Emperor entirely. That tracks with Weisz being back. Universal hasn’t posted a plot synopsis, and we’re not going to invent one. Right now, the official intel is: the gang’s back, somebody reads the book, and Imhotep is standing up again.

Obsession breakout Michael Johnston is also in the movie, in a role nobody’s announced yet. Original franchise producer Sean Daniel is producing, alongside William Sherak, James Vanderbilt, and Paul Neinstein.

The Mummy: Book of the Dead hits theaters October 15, 2027. Fraser and company are already shooting in London. Vosloo’s heading over this month. If you’ve been waiting 25 years to hear Imhotep’s name in the same sentence as a new Mummy movie, this is the one. Just, you know, maybe don’t read the book.