The Mummy is getting another reboot, following the flop of the 2017 version with Tom Cruise.
Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is helming this project for New Line, with the horror masters at Blumhouse and Atomic Monster (which worked together on things like M3gan) onboard as producers too.
The project was announced in an Instagram post from Blumhouse, with a caption teasing: "Something terrifying will be unleashed in 2026."
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Cronin also issued a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, further teasing that "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,"
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The Mummy franchise dates back to a series of films beginning in the 1930s, wtih the first reboot (and most famous incarnation) happening in 1999 with the Indiana Jones-esque romantic adventure, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. It received two sequels before the injuries Fraser received meant he couldn't go on.
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Back in 2022, Fraser said that he would like to return to the franchise in some capacity, whilst also adding his opinion on why he thinks the Cruise version didn't work.
"I don't know how it would work. But I'd be open to it if someone came up with the right conceit," he said.
"It is hard to make that movie. The ingredient that we had going for our Mummy, which I didn't see in that [2017] film, was fun. That was what was lacking in that incarnation.
"It was too much of a straight-ahead horror movie. The Mummy should be a thrill-ride, but not terrifying and scary. I know how difficult it is to pull it off, I tried to do it three times."
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