Other Mummy movie—the Brendan Fraser one—gets a cliché title

In a year that’s brought us Lee Cronin’s The Mummy and Blumhouse’s Other Mommy, we were hoping for a little more originality from the other Mummy movie lurching into theaters next year. Unfortunately, Brendan Fraser’s upcoming return to archeology has a humdrum title that probably took one hard afternoon and a strong nap to land on: The Mummy: Book Of The Dead. Though it sounds like the title of a video game or comic book spin-off, Book Of The Dead creates unnecessary confusion in the Mummy marketplace because Cronin, who released his Mummy movie earlier this year, became a Blumhouse-hold name on the Evil Dead reboot, which famously features a book of the dead. We suppose it’s still better than simply calling it Mummy or The Mummy, like the nonsense directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett pulled on their Scream legacy sequel, Scream.