The Mummy is being unwrapped from the useless as soon as once more.
Lee Cronin is writing and directing a brand new tackle the horror trope revolving across the historical mummified undead for New Line, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal.
The venture was beforehand solely referred to as a Cronin thriller film that had been introduced earlier this 12 months and is now set for an April 17, 2026 launch.
Horror powerhouses Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, together with Cronin’s banner Doppelgängers, are producing.
Plot particulars are being saved within the sarcophagus however Cronin is hoping to breathe trendy life into ageless evil.
“This will likely be not like any Mummy film you ever laid eyeballs on earlier than,” he stated in a press release to THR. “I’m digging deep into the earth to boost one thing very historical and really scary,”
The information was confirmed with publish on Blumhouse’s Instagram account, seen under.
Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are co-financing the movie. Producing are James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville. Executive producing are Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher. Alayna Glasthal is the manager overseeing the venture for Atomic Monster.
Cronin beforehand teamed with New Line for Evil Dead Rise, a low-budget scary fick that grossed almost $150 million worldwide. He has a primary look take care of the Warners division.
Mummies are usually the film territory of Universal, which famously has the titular character a part of its cupboard of monsters within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties and revived this century in films starring Brendan Fraser and Tom Cruise. Hammer Films, nonetheless, did its personal The Mummy film in 1959 that starred Christopher Lee.
Cronin is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment and Jackoway Austen.
