What happened to Katie?
That’s the central question in the first teaser for director Lee Cronin’s “The Mummy,” a twisted reboot of the classic horror franchise. This take on the undead follows the daughter of a journalist who disappears in the desert without a trace. She suddenly reappears eight years later, but something’s decidedly off with her… and what should have been a joyful reunion “quickly turns into a living nightmare,” according to the official logline.
Eerie music plays over the minute-long clip, which doesn’t offer a ton of footage from “The Mummy” but focuses on a photographer who is taking snapshots of a mummified body. Before the teaser ends, a spider crawls out of the mouth of the gray-hued body. The film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Verónica Falcón and May Calamawy.
Blumhouse and Atomic Monster are producing “The Mummy” remake for the Warner Bros.-owned New Line Cinema. Blumhouse has revived a number of characters from the Universal Classic Monsters including the Elisabeth Moss-led sleeper hit “The Invisible Man” and director Lee Whannell’s box office miss “Wolf Man.” (Although this film is set at Warners, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster have a first look deal at Universal, the home of the original “Mummy.”)
The original 1932 film “The Mummy,” starring Boris Karloff, follows a mummified ancient Egyptian priest who unleashes a powerful curse after he’s accidentally resurrected. The property spawned a late-90s film franchise with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz (a fourth installment is in the works) as well as an ill-fated 2017 reboot led by Tom Cruise. While Fraser and Cruise’s installments were swashbuckling action-adventures, Cronin, best known for “Evil Dead” sequel “Evil Dead Rises,” appears to be reimagining the ancient series as a gory thriller.
“This will be unlike any ‘Mummy’ movie you ever laid eyeballs on before,” Cronin said when he was hired in 2024. “I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.”
“The Mummy” will be released in theatres on April 17. Watch the teaser below:
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From Variety US