It looks like The Mummy is about to get a proper scary re-imagining at Blumhouse.
Lee Cronin, writer and director of last year’s Evil Dead Rise – it’s pretty solid, Deadite fans, check it out – has signed on to bring the heavily bandaged Universal monster back to the big screen in 2026.
Speaking to THR a few days ago, Cronin said that his Mummy would be “unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before. I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening”.
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Announcing it on social media, the Irish man promised it would be “terrifying”.
It’s pretty clear this new take will be distancing itself from the 1999 action adventure and the 2017 Tom Cruise, failed franchise starter and will take the story back to its Boris Karloff roots in 1932 when the movie was truly terrifying to audiences.
Either way, after his Evil Dead outing – and since he’s a fellow Irish man – I’m definitely prepared to see what he can do with this new project.
Thoughts? I know you have them…
Blumhouse’s The Mummy is due out April 17, 2026.
Check out Cronin’s original post here:
Something terrifying will be unleashed in 2026. pic.twitter.com/i0djJYS63V
— Lee Cronin (@curleecronin) December 20, 2024
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