Oscar winner Rachel Weisz has turned down a role in The Mummy 3, leaving her costar Brendan Fraser without an on-screen wife.

Weisz and Fraser played love interests Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell and Rick O'Connell in Stephen Sommers' Egyptian action movies The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.

While Fraser has signed on to star in a second sequel, Weisz is unable to commit due to a scheduling conflict.

The Fast and the Furious director Rob Cohen is set to take over for Sommers for the third movie, which is scheduled for release next year.

I didn't think Brendan Fraser would do this movie. I figured this would be a movie that would go in my thread about sequels without the original main casts. While I'm glad he's back, there are so many changes from the second film, it'll feel like a different franchise. Hopefully she's somehow able to do it. If they are going to make another sequel, then I want at least Brenden and Rachel in it. Hopefully, the brother, too. I forget his name.

Well, that's just messed up.

Not a whole lot of good news coming out of Hollywood, these days...

That sucks, it won't be the same.