Seven years after The Mummy Returns, Universal Pictures was finally able to resurrect the franchise with a third adventure, but they would do so with some key members absent: Writer/director Stephen Sommers would be replaced by The Fast & The Furious director Rob Cohen (Sommers would remain as an executive producer.) and more infamously, fan favorite Rachel Weisz would opt not to return for a third film and would be replaced by Maria Bello. Add in a drastic change in locale and it was beginning to look like THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR would be a very different outing for this unexpectedly beloved series.

Nick and Scott are back on the same page this week as they try to make sense of this unfortunate misfire on an explosive new episode of FRANCHISOGRAPHY.

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