The Mummy Is Reawakening With a New Movie in 2026

It’s been astir a decennary since we’ve had a large mummy movie, and that was erstwhile Universal tried to relaunch its fearfulness monsters done the Dark Universe and its azygous entry, The Mummy. Since then, the studio’s focused connected different monsters similar Dracula and men of the invisible and wolf varities. But if you’ve been wanting the mummified undead to marque a cinematic return, Blumhouse whitethorn person your hole with a marque caller Mummy flick.

This caller movie volition travel courtesy of Lee Cronin, director-writer of past year’s Evil Dead Rise. In the abbreviated property release, Cronin teased his movie arsenic “unlike immoderate Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs connected before. I’m digging heavy into the world to rise thing precise past and precise frightening.” The movie volition beryllium co-produced by Cronin’s Doppelgängers company, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse (which has Wolf Man arriving successful conscionable a fewer weeks), and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, which has The Monkey and M3GAN 2.0 lined up for 2025.

Something terrifying volition beryllium unleashed successful 2026. pic.twitter.com/kjKKCMuDIQ

— Blumhouse (@blumhouse) December 20, 2024

Notably, this upcoming Mummy movie isn’t from Universal, who distributed the failed 2017 reboot and cult-beloved Brendan Fraser-led ones of the ’90s. Instead, this caller movie is from New Line, which antecedently teamed with Cronin connected Rise and worked with Atomic Monster connected the Conjuring and recent Mortal Kombat films. Universal’s released some New Line movies successful the past (usually for planetary audiences), but this appears to different beryllium successful its ain satellite isolated from Universal’s Mummy. Which… hopefully, they’ll find a mode to convey that decently truthful radical don’t get confused?

We’ll larn much astir Lee Cronin’s The Mummy ahead of its merchandise connected April 17, 2026.

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