The Mummy awakens again with a new film in 2026

It’s been almost a decade since we’ve had a Big Mummy movie, and that’s when Universal attempted to relaunch their horror monsters through the Dark Universe and their unique entry, the mummy. Since then, the studio focused on other monsters such as Dracula and men of the invisible and wolf varieties. But if you wanted the mummified undead to return to the movies, Blumhouse may have your solution with a new Mummy movie.

This new film will be courtesy of Lee Cronin, last year’s director and screenwriter. Rise of the evil dead. In the brief press release, Cronin teased his film as “unlike any other.” Mummy movie you’ve ever seen before. “I am digging deep into the earth to uncover something very old and very terrifying.” The film will be co-produced by Cronin’s Doppelgängers company, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse (which has werewolf coming in a few weeks), and James Wan’s Atomic Monster poster, which has the monkey and M3GAN 2.0 aligned for 2025.

Something terrifying will be unleashed in 2026. pic.twitter.com/kjKKCMuDIQ

—Blumhouse (@blumhouse) December 20, 2024

In particular, this next Mummy The film is not from Universal, who distributed the failed 2017 reboot and the Brendan Fraser-directed ones from the ’90s. Instead, this new film is from New Line, which previously partnered with Cronin on Raise and worked with Atomic Monster on the Prestidigitation and recent mortal kombat movies. Universal Release some New Line movies in the past (usually for international audiences), but this seems to be in its own world isolated from Universal’s. Mummy. Which…hopefully, they’ll find a way to convey it properly so people don’t get confused.

We will learn more about Lee Cronin. the mummy ahead of its launch on April 17, 2026.

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