US EditionDirector Lee Cronin Says His Mummy Movie Is Almost ‘One Part Poltergeist and One Part Seven’
Lee Cronin directs a gory reboot focusing on a daughter's eerie desert disappearance and return, produced by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster for an April 17 release.
- Lee Cronin's first teaser for The Mummy centers on a family whose daughter reappears eight years later, debuting ahead of the film's April 17 release.
- Drawing on classic-thriller influences, Lee Cronin is reimagining the series as a gory, grounded thriller, inspired by Poltergeist and Seven, exploring mummification questions he says he probes 'more human aspects'.
- In the minute-long clip, eerie music accompanies the photographer character capturing a gray-hued mummified body, while Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Verónica Falcón, May Calamawy and Natalie Grace star.
- Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are producing The Mummy for New Line Cinema, and the teaser dispels rumors about a title change while linking the film to the late-90s Brendan Fraser franchise and the 2017 Tom Cruise reboot.
- Within a wider studio trend, Blumhouse revives Universal-era characters under its first-look deal at Universal, while Lee Cronin said he is 'digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening,' and coverage notes this isn’t a classic Universal Classic Monsters movie.
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The director of Evil Dead Rise reveals his take on The Mummy in first trailer
A new teaser trailer for The Mummy has just released, and if you’re confused about why there’s no Tom Cruise or Brendan Fraser (following the announcement of his return to his 1999 franchise), there's a good reason. Evil Dead Rise and The Hole in the Ground director Lee Cronin has his own mummy flick, which is officially titled Lee Cronin's The Mummy.
Director Lee Cronin Says His Mummy Movie Is Almost ‘One Part Poltergeist and One Part Seven’
“This is a very different kind of Mummy movie.”That’s what writer-director Lee Cronin told me during a Zoom call last week about his upcoming horror film, the eponymous Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. And really, it only makes sense that he’d want to differentiate the movie from the many, many Mummy titles that have come before. From Boris Karloff to Christopher Lee to Brendan Fraser and all the way up to Tom Cruise, there have been an untold number of …
'The Mummy' Teaser Trailer: It's Wise to Leave the Dead Alone
The teaser for Lee Cronin’s new take on the classic The Mummy tale mixes a montage of creepy scenes with plenty of onscreen taglines promoting the 2026 horror film’s pedigree. The minute-long teaser ends with the question, “What happened to Katie?” Lee Cronin’s The Mummy opens in theaters on April 17, 2026. Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (The Wheel of Time), May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Natalie Grace (1923), and Veronica Falcón (Perry Mason)…
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