EXCLUSIVE: Numan Acar (Young Sherlock) has inked a deal to join The Mummy, the next installment in the action-adventure franchise from Universal Pictures. Also newly locked are a pair of franchise veterans, Kevin J. O’Connor and Oded Fehr.
Both O’Connor and Fehr were introduced in 1999’s The Mummy, with Fehr reprising in 2001’s The Mummy Returns. O’Connor played Beni Gabor, a former French Foreign Legion comrade of Brendan Fraser’s Rick O’Connell turned conman and servant of the resurrected Egyptian high priest Imhoptep. Fehr played Ardeth Bay, the leader of the secret society of elite warriors known as the Medjai who are sworn to protect
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