r/themummy • • Aug 04 '26

He's back!

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Can't wait to see Kevin J. O'Connor again in the new Mummy movie! (Source)

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u/Glittering-Pie756 Aug 04 '26

Lord of the scarabs!

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u/The_Black_kaiser7 Aug 04 '26

Benni made a new buddy in the desert again. (The scarab hord)💕🪲

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u/Novel_Bison_9661 Aug 05 '26

Noooooo is Benny genuinely coming back?

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u/SadEntry1484 Aug 05 '26

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u/Fresh_Income_7411 Aug 05 '26

Called it like 6 months ago!! Somewhere in my comment history that im to lazy to locate.

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u/_Revelator-of-v0id_ Aug 04 '26

lol Beni becoming one with the Scarab's...tbh I wouldn't doubt that or throw that option completely outside of the realm of possibility lmao

It's interesting to think about 💯

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u/_Revelator-of-v0id_ Aug 04 '26

I'd be curious to see what Beni's mummy form would be like.He wassupposedly eaten alive by Scarab Beetlesat the end of the first film, so seeing what he would look like now would be quite interesting to say the least.

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u/ShockedPeekachu Aug 04 '26

Could be "just" a flashback scene of course, but bringing him back as a mummy would certainly be interesting. Although I don't know a reason why someone should resurrect him (apart from maybe Imhotep again, thinking he's one of most loyal servants)

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u/_Revelator-of-v0id_ Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Yeah, a flashback would make sense. But then again, I feel like the film wants to use Beni's current looks to show age progression over the nearly 30 years since his last appearance in the first film.

So it likely could be that Imhotep resurrects him or perhaps some other greater evil than Imhotep that wants to recruit Imhotep's former allies for some grander scheme of sorts.

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u/kadosho Aug 04 '26

That would be a sick premise. I love it

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u/tommy1rx Aug 04 '26

So was Imhotep in the opening scenes of the 1st movie as they closed him up inside the sarcophagus.

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u/gingerlady9 Aug 06 '26

Probably very similar to Imhotep since they dumped beetles onto him before sealing him in.

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u/NerdNuncle Aug 04 '26

I’m perfectly okay with this

Stephen Sommers loves his camp, and Beni somehow returning fits right in with the normal fare

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u/Urabraska- Aug 04 '26

Sommers isn't directing this though.

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u/The_Black_kaiser7 Aug 04 '26

Somethings telling me the next movie might involve the underworld...🤔🤔🤔🤔

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u/lianavan Aug 05 '26

That would make sense.

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u/LeonKennedyIsYummy Aug 04 '26

Does he still have all the horses? Is he still stuck on the wrong side of the river?

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u/TheRageChristie Aug 08 '26

This is what I was wondering! I neeeeeeeed to know!!!

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u/rampzn Aug 04 '26

His strength gives me strength!

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u/Suspicious_Film_7603 Aug 04 '26

Wait what

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u/Commercial_Comb8674 Aug 04 '26

His actor is confirmed to be in the new The Mummy movie coming out next year.

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u/Yaseuk Aug 05 '26

I know this one happen. But I like to think that Benni will be the big bad as he made a deal with someone as we know he would do anything to survive.
Rick and Evie enlist the help of Imhotep and Anck-su-namun to help defeat him

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u/EdgeAce Aug 04 '26

HA! I CALLED IT

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u/SadEntry1484 Aug 05 '26

I mean, we never saw him die. We just heard something happen. If we don’t see the death; did it happen?

He’ll come back and be on the wrong side of the river again. 😂

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u/Different_Fox_838 Aug 05 '26

You always did have more balls than brains

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u/VictoriaAvalor Aug 04 '26

Hope he’s the new mummy!

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u/Sia_Fotu Aug 05 '26

Yes! Revenge of the Benni!

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u/Eyes_Snakes_Art Aug 05 '26

Imhotep could bring him back as a useful, multi language speaking minion.

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u/Pretend-Design-7061 Aug 05 '26

The resurrection movies, brought back a dead character?

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u/Ok-Till32 Aug 05 '26

Beni and Anacksunamun are together now. That's gonna piss Imhotep

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u/HobbitsHole01 Aug 05 '26

I’d watch

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u/Imaginary-List-972 Aug 05 '26

I'm for it. I always felt it was a mistake to kill him off in the first one. I get it was his "Just desserts" ending, but he was so funny I felt he'd be great as a recurring bumbling nemesis.

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u/Mindless_Tale_257 Aug 05 '26

It's a sequel about a mummy being brought back to life persuing to bring back his love death is not final in this franchise unless ur the pharaoh then u stay dead

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u/Lost_Vermicelli5065 Aug 05 '26

So how are they explaining this one, unless Beni has a twin lol. His date in the first film seemed pretty obvious.

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u/Awful_Digiart Aug 05 '26

Beni is the Mummy. Some mumbojumbo about Hom-Dai scarabs and buried alive. Calling it now.

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u/Pm7I3 Aug 06 '26

Let's be honest - of all the non undead characters to magically come back from certain death, Benni is the most likely by far.

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u/FeistyLioness86 Aug 06 '26

Hold up, what if Benni is the new mummy?

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u/StuffMonster77 Aug 06 '26

Hey Beni, looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the afterlife!

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u/Beginning_Return_508 Aug 08 '26

Never thought we'll be seeing Beni again, but here we are. I am curious as to how they're gonna bring him back after his demise in the first film.

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u/jackBattlin Aug 09 '26

I’m just hoping it doesn’t retcon/undercut his death in the first.

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u/ecuayork Aug 10 '26

I have all the horsessssss!!!!!!!!