By Lee Cronin, the Irish director of the well-received “The Hole in the Ground” and “Evil Dead Rise,” has set his third project – “The Mummy”.
Cronin is writing and directing a new take on the ancient mummified undead creature for New Line, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse. Cronin’s production company Doppelgängers will produce.
The property is NOT yet another reboot of the Universal classic monster franchise that began with the Boris Karloff-led 1932 film which spawned several sequels.
That property was rebooted in 1999 by Stephen Sommers as a mostly successful action-adventure trilogy, and then again in 2017 by Alex Kurtzman as the failed first entry in a proposed ‘Dark Universe’ venture.
Cronin tells THR this won’t be like any of those: “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 very frightening.”
James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville will produce. The film has been set for an April 17th 2026 release.
Source: THR
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