Writer/director Lee Cronin has decided to follow up Evil Dead Rise by making a Mummy movie... but not for Universal The post Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is making a Mummy movie for New Line Cinema,

Tom Cruise’s Mummy was an attempt to create a Marvel-like Monsterverse. So the scope and scale of the film was appropriately outlandish and blockbuster-y. You have zombies in the London Underground. Russell Crowe plays Dr. Jekyll. It’s over the top.

The Mummy is set for a horror reimagining in 2026. Lee Cronin, writer and director of 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, is on board to write and direct this new take for horror film specialist Blumhouse Productions.

Director Lee Cronin’s mysterious next movie has officially been revealed, and it’s a new horror film titled The Mummy from New Line, with Blumhouse co-producing the project. What do we know about The Mummy?

The Mummy,' a new take on the film subgenre from Lee Cronin, is in the works at New Line, Deadline has confirmed.

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.

A Cronin project had been on the books for a while, announced earlier this year, but confirmation that it’s a new spin on The Mummy came today via an Instagram post from Cronin and Blumhouse. It reveals the script’s title page,