It’s Fun to be Dead In the Trailer for ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’

When news broke that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz were reprising their roles in the swashbuckling monster adventure franchise, The Mummy, some wondered about that other Mummy. Wasn’t Lee Cronin, director of Evil Dead Rise, also making a Mummy movie? Would one be bad for the other? How could we tell them apart? Well, the first full trailer for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is here, and it makes things pretty obvious. There’s no way you can mix up the two.

In Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (which, yes, is the full title), two parents are told their daughter, who has been missing for eight years, has been found alive. Only when they see her do they realize she’s not the same as she was. Mostly because she’s been entombed in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus all that time. And things only get creepier from there.

That’s Jack Reynor and Laia Costa as the parents, with Natalie Grace as the daughter, Katie. And, obviously, no one is going to get this very gross, intense, horror take on The Mummy mixed up with the run-and-gun goofball version that got turned into theme park rides. This is a whole new vision. Lee Cronin’s vision. One you do not want to experience at Universal Studios or in person ever. Only in a movie theater. Especially since we are very interested in answering the question the trailer poses: “What happened to Katie?”

We’ll find out what happened to Katie in a few short months when Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, a title we’ll never get used to typing out in full, opens on April 17. Are you excited to see this new take on the character? Do you think, if this is a hit, there’s room for two potential Mummy franchises running simultaneously? Will this start a whole new Dark Universe? Let us know below.

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