The Mummyis rising from its tomb. The venerable horror franchise is coming back under the control ofEvil Dead Rise’sLee Cronin, who will write and direct the film for New Line Cinema and Blumhouse. Along with the announcement, the film is set to be released on June 23, 2025.
The film was previously announced as an unnamed Lee Cronin horror project, but Blumhouse announced its true nature on its official Twitter account with an animated image of the first page of the script with its title being revealed, accompanied by eerie chanting reminiscent of the scores to several previousMummymovies. It will be the third of the classicUniversal Classic Monstersfranchises to be revived by Blumhouse, withLeigh Whannell’sThe Invisible Mandebuting to critical and commercial success in 2020, and his follow-up,Wolf Man, set to premiere next month. No other details of the film have yet been revealed, but Cronin promised, “This will be unlike anyMummymovie you ever laid eyeballs on before. I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.”
What Is ‘The Mummy’ Franchise About?
Mummies, the preserved, linen-wrapped dead of Ancient Egypt, have been a staple of horror fiction sinceArthur Conan Doyle’s short story “Lot No. 249” terrified Victorian readers in 1892. They first hit the big screen in 1932 when Universal debutedThe Mummy; it starred horror legendBoris Karloffas Imhotep, a resurrected Egyptian noble searching for his reincarnated love in the modern day. A success for the studio, it spawned a number of sequels. The concept of living mummies, like many of Universal’s other horror classics, was revisited byBritish horror specialists Hammer, who made their own version ofThe Mummyin 1958 withPeter CushingandChristopher Lee. Universal revisitedThe Mummythemselves in 1999, recasting it as asupernatural horror adventure, withBrendan FraserandRachel Weiszas a pair of explorers pitted against the resurrected Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo); it was an enormous hit and had two sequels of its own. Less successful was 2017’sThe Mummy; an attempt to launch theDark Universe(an MCU-style cinematic universe), which starredTom Cruiseas a mercenary who attracts the unwanted attention of the undead Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella). It was a financial and critical disappointment, and the franchise was returned to its sarcophagus…until now.
The Mummywill be produced byJames Wan,Jason Blum, andJohn Keville. It will be executive produced byMichael Clear,Judson Scott, andMacdara Kelleher.Alayna Glasthalwill oversee the project for Atomic Monster. It is a production of New Line, Atomic Monster, and Doppelgängers.
The Mummywill lumber into theaters on June 17, 2025. You can watch Brendan Fraser’sThe Mummyon Hulu. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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