Jack Reynor will star in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy for New Line Cinema and producers Atomic Monster and Blumhouse. Doppelgängers, Cronin’s own banner, who previously made Evil Dead Rise for New Line, is also producing.

Plot details are being kept wrapped up tight, but the rumour is that Reynor is playing a husband and father who runs afoul of supernatural, sinister forces. In a previous interview, Cronin told The Hollywood Reporter that his 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.”

Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are co-financing the film. Producing are James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville. Executive producing are Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher. Alayna Glasthal is overseeing the project for Atomic Monster.

Jack Reynor is best known for Transformers: Age of Extinction, Sing Street, and Midsommar. Cronin, meanwhile, is known for directing horror films such as The Hole in the Ground and Evil Dead Rise.

This The Mummy film will be the eleventh feature film in the franchise, including the Universal Classic Monsters continuity, the Stephen Sommers series, and the Dark Universe.

Production on The Mummy begins next week in Ireland. The film is set to be released on April 17th, 2026.