One of the biggest news stories on the site in the last few months has been that, after twenty-five years, Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting for an upcoming Mummy legacy sequel. But before that movie even starts shooting, we have another Mummy movie coming to theaters—and unlike those (really good) adventure movies, this is straight-up horror and definitely ain’t no PG-13.
Indeed, in the Motion Picture Association’s latest ratings bulletin, it was confirmed that Lee Cronin’s The Mummy has nabbed an R-rating for “strong disturbing violent content, gore, language and brief drug use.” Now, it can’t be said that this was unexpected. Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise was R-rated, made close to $150 million on a $15 million budget, so no one ever thought his follow-up would be anything other than R. WB and New Line, who are distributing the film, have also been good about keeping horror fans satisfied with a solid stream of R-rated goods, including Final Destination: Bloodlines, The Conjuring: Last Rites and Weapons. Indeed, R-rated horror is the default now, with the days of bad PG-13-rated studio horror films long behind us.
What’s Lee Cronin’s The Mummy about?
Here’s the official plot: The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.
The film stars Sing Street’s Jack Reynor, Laia Costa (Victoria), May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Veronica Falcón (Queen of the South), Hayat Kamille (Vikings: Valhalla), and May Elghety (Clash).
Is it related to the Universal Mummy movies?
So here’s where it gets a little confusing. While all involved say it has nothing to do with Universal’s franchise, it is produced by Blumhouse, who did some reimagining of classic Universal Monsters horror properties with The Invisible Man and Wolf Man. Yet, this is being put out by New Line. It is still called The Mummy, but the thought is that Lee Cronin’s possessory credit was included in the title in order to keep it separate from the Universal franchise, especially considering that it’s about to become active again. For a while, there was talk that the film was going to be renamed, but hey—it’s a Mummy movie, so you might as well call it The Mummy, right?
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy hits theatres in its R-rated glory on April 17th.
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