The Mummy reawakens with a new movie in 2026

It’s been nearly a decade since we’ve gotten a big Mummy movie, and that’s when Universal tried to relaunch horror monsters with the Dark Universe and its only entry, The mummy. Since then, the studio has focused on other monsters such as Dracula And invisible men wolf Varieties. But if you’ve been wanting the mummified zombies to return to cinema, Blumhouse may have the solution for you with a brand new movie. mummy flick.

This new film will come courtesy of Lee Cronin, director and writer of last year’s The Year Rising Evil Dead. In a short press release, Cronin teased his film, saying, “It’s unlike any other film mummy A movie that I’ve laid eyeballs on before. I’m digging deep into the ground to unearth something very old and very scary. The film will be co-produced by Cronin’s company Doppelgängers and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse (which produced The wolf man Arrives in just a few weeks ), and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, which Monkey and M3GAN 2.0 Planned for 2025.

Something terrifying will be unleashed in 2026. pic.twitter.com/kjKKCMuDIQ

– Blumhouse (@blumhouse) December 20, 2024

It is worth noting that this is coming mummy The film is not from Universal, which distributed the failed 2017 reboot and the Brendan Fraser-led films in the 1990s. Instead, this new film is produced by New Line, which previously collaborated with Cronin on It rises And I worked with Atomic Monster on Conjuration And modern Mortal Kombat films. Universal released some New Line films in the past (usually for international audiences), but this one seemed to be in its own universe isolated from Universal’s world mummy. Which…hopefully they find a way to convey that properly so people don’t get confused?

We will learn more about Lee Cronin The mummy Before its release on April 17, 2026.

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