Lee Cronin, director of the campy and cult-approved “Evil Dead Rise", has been tapped by Universal to write and direct a new installment of "The Mummy".
The project was first announced as an undisclosed movie from Cronin earlier this year.
The movie is being produced by Atomic Monster and Blumhouse along with Cronin's Doppelgangers production banner, with a release date of April 17, 2026.
“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,” Cronin said in a statement.
The director’s label Doppelgängers will also serve as a producer, alongside James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville.
Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will co-finance. Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher are executive producers.
Alayna Glasthal is the executive overseeing the project for Atomic Monster.
Blumhouse has had good luck updating the classic horror figures from the Universal film library — most of them distributed by that studio — including Elizabeth Moss’ sleeper hit “Invisible Man” and an upcoming take on “Wolfman” from director Lee Whannell and star Christopher Abbott.
As intellectual property, “The Mummy” spawned a late-90s film franchise starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and, in a sequel, an upstart Dwayne Johnson.
In 2017, Tom Cruise took an ill-fated stab at a reboot alongside Sofia Boutella and Russell Crowe.
“Evil Dead Rise,” also a New Line release, grossed nearly $150 million on a reported $12 million budget.
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