First, clarification: This is not a remake of The Mummy, the beloved Brendan Fraser/Rachel Weisz movie, nor is it the Universal Monsters kind of mummy. It’s just … The Mummy, coming from New Line Cinema, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse, James Wan’s Atomic Monster, and writer-director Lee Cronin.
Cronin, who directed 2023’s Evil Dead Rise, has said the film “will be 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.”
And now he has his star: The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jack Reynor, recently seen in Prime Video’s gone-too-soon The Peripheral, will lead the film. THR says, “Plot details are being kept in the tomb, but it is understood that Reynor is playing a husband and father who runs afoul of supernaturally sinister forces.”
Reynor has also been in the Tom Holland movie Cherry (where his character is called “Pills and Coke”), the Paramount Plus series Strange Angel, and, perhaps most memorably, Midsommar. He is also set to co-star with Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas in John Carney’s Power Ballad (Reynor was also in the director’s Sing Street).
No other cast has been announced for The Mummy, but it is set to arrive on screens April 17, 2026.
