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'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' trades Tom Cruise-era action for sheer terror in new trailer
- The first full trailer centers on a family reunited with a daughter missing eight years, with Lee Cronin's The Mummy arriving in theaters April 17.
- Backed by James Wan and Jason Blum, director Lee Cronin reimagines the Universal Monsters by turning the mummy into a child, following his success with Evil Dead Rise, which grossed 147 million globally.
- The trailer shows Katie as a mummified husk who bites hands and poses, `What was our daughter doing in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus?`, revealing years entombed.
- Casting credits list Natalie Grace as Katie and Lee Cronin as writer-director, with Jack Reynor and Laia Costa portraying the parents who bring her home despite warnings.
- With other Mummy projects active, this film's April 17 release invites franchise comparisons as James Wan and Jason Blum's producers place it within Universal Monsters' reworking, raising questions about two Mummy franchises and a new Dark Universe.
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New Line CinemaWith Evil Dead Rise, Lee Cronin brought an already gnarly horror franchise back to life in the most gruesome of ways. For the record, that’s high praise: it’s not easy bringing something new to the possession movie, as so many horror films have made their own meals out of that basic narrative. Cronin established himself as a director to watch with the 2023 film, but with his new take on The Mummy, he’s striving to prove that he ca…
'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' trades Tom Cruise-era action for sheer terror in new trailer
The twisted reimagining is helmed by the director of 2023's "Evil Dead Rise."Natalie Grace in 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' and Sofia Boutella in 2017's 'The Mummy' Warner Bros. Pictures; Universal PicturesGet ready to witness a terrifying new take on a classic monster.Lee Cronin's The Mummy won't be going the route of the 1999 Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz classic, a crowd-pleasing action-adventure romp. Nor will it fully embrace action like the 2…
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