Well, it is Christmas time, so it makes sense that Blumhouse would give us a lovely gift to unwrap – a new The Mummy movie! After several big-screen iterations, including 1932’s version with Boris Karloff, the cult-classic Brendan Fraser-fronted adventure movies, and the slightly more ill-fated, Tom Cruise-starring, supposed Dark Universe-starting 2017 take, Universal’s mummified monster is back. At the helm will be writer and director Lee Cronin, the man behind 2023’s excellent Evil Dead Rise.
A Cronin project had been on the books for a while, announced earlier this year, but confirmation that it’s a new spin on The Mummy came today via an Instagram post from Cronin and Blumhouse. It reveals the script’s title page, with the caption ‘Something terrifying will be unleashed in 2026’.
Jason Blum and James Wan are on producing duty, and the success Blumhouse had in reinvigorating Universal’s classic monsters for the modern age with Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man – which they’ll be hoping to replicate with Whannell’s upcoming Wolf Man – as well as the impressive box-office takings for Evil Dead Rise are certainly promising. There are no plot details as of yet, but in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Cronin said that “This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before. I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and frightening.” All together now, in the style of John Hannah’s Jonathan from the 1999 version: Im-ho-tep…. Im-ho-tep…
Cronin’s The Mummy is set for release on April 17 2026.