The Mummy is being unwrapped from the dead once again.
Lee Cronin is writing and directing a new take on the horror trope revolving around the ancient mummified undead for New Line, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal.
The project was previously only known as a Cronin mystery movie that had been announced earlier this year and is now set for an April 17, 2026 release.
Horror powerhouses Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, along with Cronin’s banner Doppelgängers, are producing.
Plot details are being kept in the sarcophagus but Cronin is hoping to breathe modern life into ageless evil.
“This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before,” he said in a statement to THR. “I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening,”
The news was confirmed with post on Blumhouse’s Instagram account, seen below.
Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are co-financing the film. Producing are James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville. Executive producing are Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher. Alayna Glasthal is the executive overseeing the project for Atomic Monster.
Cronin previously teamed with New Line for Evil Dead Risea low-budget scary fick that grossed nearly $150 million worldwide. He has a first look deal with the Warners division.
Mummies tend to be the movie territory of Universal, which famously has the titular character part of its cabinet of monsters in the 1930s and 1940s and revived this century in movies starring Brendan Fraser and Tom Cruise. Hammer Films, however, did its own The Mummy movie in 1959 that starred Christopher Lee.
Cronin is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment and Jackoway Austen.
