The Mummy Is Reawakening With a New Movie in 2026

It’s been almost a decade since we’ve had a big mummy movie, and that was when Universal tried to relaunch its horror monsters through the Dark Universe and its single entry, The Mummy. Since then, the studio’s focused on other monsters like Dracula and men of the invisible and wolf varities. But if you’ve been wanting the mummified undead to make a cinematic return, Blumhouse may have your fix with a brand new Mummy flick.

This new movie will come courtesy of Lee Cronin, director-writer of last year’s Evil Dead Rise. In the short press release, Cronin teased his film as “unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before. I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.” The film will be co-produced by Cronin’s Doppelgängers company, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse (which has Wolf Man arriving in just a few weeks), and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, which has The Monkey and M3GAN 2.0 lined up for 2025.

Something terrifying will be unleashed in 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 new film is from New Line, which previously teamed with Cronin on Rise and worked with Atomic Monster on the Conjuring and recent Mortal Kombat films. Universal’s released some New Line movies in the past (usually for international audiences), but this appears to otherwise be in its own world isolated from Universal’s Mummy. Which… hopefully, they’ll find a way to convey that properly so people don’t get confused?

We’ll learn more about Lee Cronin’s The Mummy ahead of its release on April 17, 2026.

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