Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, the Evil Dead Rise director’s reimagining of the monster as a story of possession, was listed for a special screening in London.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, from the director of Evil Dead Rise, was listed for a special screening in London on Wednesday 15 April 2026. The film recasts the ancient monster as a story of possession.
Cronin was born in Dublin in 1982 and started out in short films. Ghost Train, in 2013, won a Méliès d’Argent, and his first feature, The Hole in the Ground, followed in 2019.
In 2023 he wrote and directed Evil Dead Rise for New Line Cinema. In 2024 he co-founded the production company Wicked/Good.
Jack Reynor plays Charlie Cannon, a television reporter whose young daughter is taken in Cairo. She is returned eight years later, partly mummified and possessed by an ancient demon.
The film had its world premiere in Los Angeles on 9 April. Warner Bros. Pictures opened it in British cinemas on 17 April, two days after the London screening, with an 18 certificate.
Reynor, raised in County Wicklow, won Irish Film and Television Academy awards for What Richard Did and Sing Street and appeared in Midsommar. Laia Costa, May Calamawy and Verónica Falcón complete the principal cast. James Wan and Jason Blum produced through Atomic Monster and Blumhouse.