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

When information broke that Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz have been reprising their roles within the swashbuckling monster journey franchise, The Mummy, some puzzled about that different Mummy. Wasn’t Lee Cronin, director of Evil Dead Rise, additionally making a Mummy film? Would one be unhealthy for the opposite? How may we inform them aside? Well, the primary full trailer for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is right here, and it makes issues fairly apparent. There’s no manner you may combine up the 2.

In Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (which, sure, is the total title), two dad and mom are advised their daughter, who has been lacking for eight years, has been discovered alive. Only after they see her do they notice she’s not the identical as she was. Mostly as a result of she’s been entombed in a 3,000-year-old sarcophagus all that point. And issues solely get creepier from there.

That’s Jack Reynor and Laia Costa because the dad and mom, with Natalie Grace because the daughter, Katie. And, clearly, nobody goes to get this very gross, intense, horror tackle The Mummy combined up with the run-and-gun goofball model that received became theme park rides. This is a complete new imaginative and prescient. Lee Cronin’s imaginative and prescient. One you do not need to expertise at Universal Studios or in individual ever. Only in a movie show. Especially since we’re very curious about answering the query the trailer poses: “What happened to Katie?”

We’ll discover out what occurred to Katie in a couple of quick months when Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, a title we’ll by no means get used to typing out in full, opens on April 17. Are you excited to see this new tackle the character? Do you suppose, if it is a hit, there’s room for 2 potential Mummy franchises working concurrently? Will this begin a complete new Dark Universe? Let us know under.

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