The Mummy Awakens in 2026 with a New Movie

It’s been almost a decade since we’ve had a major mummy movie, and in that time Universal has tried to reboot their horror monsters through the Dark Universe and its single entry. Mummy. Since then, the studio has turned its attention to other monsters Dracula and invisible men and monster is different. But if you want the mummified dead back in cinemas, Blumhouse can make it right with a new movie. mother whisk.

This new film will be presented by last year’s director-writer Lee Cronin Rise of the Evil Dead. In a short press release, Cronin described the film as “unlike any other mother the movie you’ve laid eyeballs on before. I am digging deep into the earth to grow something very ancient and very scary.” The film will be produced in association with Cronin’s Doppelgängers company, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse. Wolf Man arriving in just a few weeks) and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner Monkey and M3GAN 2.0 It is scheduled for 2025.

In 2026 something terrible will happen. pic.twitter.com/kjKKCMuDIQ

— Blumhouse (@blumhouse) December 20, 2024

Note that this is forthcoming mother the film isn’t from Universal, which distributed the failed 2017 reboot and the 90s blockbuster Brendan Fraser-led films. Instead, this new film is from New Line, which previously teamed up with Cronin Get up and worked with Atomic Monster Conjuring and the end Mortal Kombat movies. Released Universal some of them New Line films in the past (usually for international audiences), but this one seems to be in its own world, isolated from an otherwise Universal film. mother Which…hopefully they’ll find a way to get it right so people aren’t confused?

We will learn more about Lee Cronin Mummy Ahead of its release on April 17, 2026.

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