The Mummy (no, not Lee Cronin's The Mummy) will return in May 2028

As mentioned, there are two Mummy movies coming to theaters in the coming years. This April, Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin puts his visible auteurial stamp on the series, with Blumhouse’s latest entry in its collection of updates to the classic Universal monster movies, which could very well be called The Dark Universe Lite or The Lite Universe. However, unlike Wolf Man and The Invisible Man, which were released through Universal, Warner Bros. is distributing Lee Cronin’s The Mummy through New Line. So maybe this one isn’t connected to the other two? It’s very confusing. For example, where do the recent Dracula and Frankenstein fit in? 2026’s The Mummy is a co-production between Blumhouse and James Wan’s Atomic Monster imprint. Being that Wan is one of WB’s biggest directors, we doubt there will be a scene in which Russell Crowe invites Elisabeth Moss and Christopher Abbott into a larger, darker universe. Ironically, Mummy (1999) director Joe Johnston also directed a version of The Wolfman in 2010. Brand management of these Universal monsters over the last 20 years is like poetry; it rhymes.