Buzzy genre filmmaker Lee Cronin (Evil Dead Rise) will write and direct The Mummy, a new film in the horror subgenre for New Line, Deadline has confirmed.
Plot details are under wraps. Atomic Monster and Blumhouse will co-finance and produce alongside Cronin’s Doppelgängers for release on April 17, 2026. Producers include James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville. Exec producers are Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher. Alayna Glasthal is overseeing the project for Atomic Monster. Blumhouse corroborated THR’s initial report today on a new Mummy movie in a post to its official Instagram page, writing, “Something terrifying will be unleashed in 2026.”
Mummies have been a staple for horror filmmakers dating back to the 1930s, when Universal Pictures introduced The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff as the iconic Imhotep. The studio later turned The Mummy into a successful blockbuster franchise, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, beginning in the late 1990s, though its most recent Mummy film, starring Tom Cruise, wasn’t as well received in its 2017 debut.
Most recently directing New Line’s critically acclaimed Evil Dead Rise, which grossed over $147M worldwide, Cronin attached last year to Thaw, a separate horror thriller for the studio, the status of which is not clear. The director broke out with The Hole in the Ground, which premiered at Sundance in 2019.
The Hollywood Reporter was first to today’s Mummy news.