Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin will helm a new Mummy film slated for release in 2026, here are the details.
The Mummy was, of course, part of the stable of classic movie monsters at Universal in the 1930s, which also included Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolfman. Incidentally Gods And Monsters, the biopic of Frankenstein director James Whale starring Ian McKellen and Brendan Fraser, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video and is well worth watching.
Fraser headlined the 1990s/early 2000s trilogy of Mummy films, alongside Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo and, in The Mummy Returns, Dwayne Johnson, who went on to star in spin-off The Scorpion King, which also lived on through a plethora of straight to DVD sequels. There were plans for a fourth Fraser Mummy film but, for various reasons, it never happened – we wrote about it here.
However, in the wake of Fraser’s Oscar win for The Whale, Universal expressed interest in a new film with Fraser and Weisz.
An attempt was made to create a new Monster universe with 2014’s Dracula Untold starring Luke Evans, which continued with 2017’s The Mummy starring Tom Cruise. The planned shared universe never happened and future films, which would have starred Johnny Depp as The Invisible Man, Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s Monster, Russell Crowe as Dr Jekyll and Angelina Jolie as The Bride of Frankenstein, were cancelled, we wrote about it here. Leigh Whannell eventually made The Invisible Man in 2020, while Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bride of Frankenstein, retitled to The Bride! will be released on the 26th September 2025.
Which brings us to here.
According to Deadline, Lee Cronin will write and direct a new Mummy film for New Line. Cronin has experience injecting fresh ideas into old franchises, he directed Evil Dead Rise last year. Atomic Monster and Blumhouse will co-finance and produce alongside Cronin’s Doppelgängers.
We’ll keep you updated as we hear more. In the meantime, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor are available on Sky Movies.
