Get ready to unwrap Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, as it’s heading to streaming just in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
The horror movie will make its global streaming debut exclusively on HBO Max on Friday, July 3. The film will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, July 4 at 8:00 pm ET.
The gory reimagining of a Universal Horror classic follows as ” a journalist’s young daughter disappears into the desert without a trace. Eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.”
Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (“The Wheel of Time”), May Calamawy (“Moon Knight”), Natalie Grace (“1923”), and Veronica Falcón (“Ozark”) lead the cast.
From Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and New Line Cinema, the film is produced by horror master James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville. Lee Cronin executive produces.
“This is a very different kind of Mummy movie,” Cronin promises. “It’s an insane mashup to suggest, but [the film is] almost one part Poltergeist and one part Se7en.” Though I’d argue it’s all parts Evil Dead.
Cronin previously told BD of his Mummy, “The aspiration to want to do something unique, but placed it within the sandbox of the Mummy sort of lore and mythology. But within that, how do we find something that we haven’t quite seen before?”
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is rated “R” for “Strong disturbing violent content, gore, language, and brief drug use.”
On a related note, The Mummy 4 starring Brendan Fraser is coming soon!