Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Cast Adds The Perfect Couple Star, Gets First Plot Details

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Lee Cronin’s The Mummy Cast Adds The Perfect Couple Star, Gets First Plot Details

Jack Reynor has been cast in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy.

Lee Cronin is currently working on a new The Mummy movie for New Line Cinema. Atomic Monster, Blumhouse, and Cronin’s Doppelgängers banner are all producing the film, which is expected to begin filming next week.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Reynor has been cast as a “husband and father who runs afoul of supernaturally sinister forces.”

Reynor is known for playing Thomas Winbury in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple. He also starred as Christian Hughes in Ari Aster’s Midsommar and has worked with John Carney on movies such as 2016’s Sing Street and 2023’s Flora and Son. Beyond that, his filmography includes 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, 2016’s Free Fire, 2018’s On the Basis of Sex, 2021’s Cherry, and more.

He’ll soon be seen in Carney’s next movie, which is titled Power Ballad and also stars Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas. A release date has not yet been set.

What else do we know about Lee Cronin’s The Mummy?

Further plot details beyond the details of Reynor’s character for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy remain under wraps at this time. Cronin said in December 2024 that his film “will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before, via The Hollywood Reporter. He added, “I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.”

The Mummy will be Cronin’s third feature film following 2019’s The Hole in the Ground and 2023’s Evil Dead Rise. James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville produce the film, while Michael Clear, Judson Scott, and Macdara Kelleher serve as executive producers.

Universal Pictures popularized mummies in horror movies with the Boris Karloff-starring project that was released in 1932. That was followed by a number of sequels, while Stephen Sommers’ Mummy franchise with Brendan Fraser then kicked off in 1999. Tom Cruise then starred in a Mummy movie in 2017 that was intended to launch a new, shared monster universe, though that never came to fruition and was ultimately canceled.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy will be released in United States theaters on April 17, 2026, from New Line Cinema.