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.

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

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.