The Mummy is ready for a horror reimagining in 2026.
Lee Cronin, author and director of 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, is on board to write down and direct this new take for horror movie specialist Blumhouse Productions.
“This can be in contrast to any Mummy film you ever laid eyeballs on earlier than,” Cronin advised The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m digging deep into the earth to lift one thing very historical and really horrifying.”
In a tweet, Cronin teased his new The Mummy film can be “terrifying.”
Something terrifying can be unleashed in 2026. pic.twitter.com/i0djJYS63V
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) December 20, 2024
The Mummy motion pictures started life within the Nineteen Thirties lengthy earlier than the Brendan Fraser-starring The Mummy movies sparked into life in 1999. The Scorpion King spin-off, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, adopted in 2002.
More just lately, Universal Studios rebooted the sequence with 2017’s The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. It was meant to set-up the Dark Universe, however The Mummy was such a vital and business catastrophe that every one different Dark Universe movies had been canceled.
IGN’s Evil Dead Rise evaluation returned a 9/10. We mentioned: “Evil Dead Rise is each a well-recognized and refreshing Evil Dead sequel that delivers all of the gore you’d anticipate with a measured dose of the humor that makes this sequence a fan favourite.”
Blumhouse’s The Mummy is due out April 17, 2026.
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