US EditionDirector Lee Cronin Says His Mummy Movie Is Almost ‘One Part Poltergeist and One Part Seven’
Lee Cronin directs a gory reboot focusing on a daughter's eerie desert disappearance and return, produced by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster for an April 17 release.
- Lee Cronin's first teaser for The Mummy centers on a family whose daughter reappears eight years later, debuting ahead of the film's April 17 release.
- Drawing on classic-thriller influences, Lee Cronin is reimagining the series as a gory, grounded thriller, inspired by Poltergeist and Seven, exploring mummification questions he says he probes 'more human aspects'.
- In the minute-long clip, eerie music accompanies the photographer character capturing a gray-hued mummified body, while Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Verónica Falcón, May Calamawy and Natalie Grace star.
- Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are producing The Mummy for New Line Cinema, and the teaser dispels rumors about a title change while linking the film to the late-90s Brendan Fraser franchise and the 2017 Tom Cruise reboot.
- Within a wider studio trend, Blumhouse revives Universal-era characters under its first-look deal at Universal, while Lee Cronin said he is 'digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening,' and coverage notes this isn’t a classic Universal Classic Monsters movie.
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