‘The Mummy’ Sequel? Lee Cronin Says “There Are Great Opportunities”
With ‘The Mummy’ now in theaters, discussions around a sequel are already beginning. Lee Cronin doesn’t sound like he’d be opposed.
Lee Cronin‘s The Mummy is now scaring up theaters. With a strong opening, there is always a possibility for a sequel when it comes horror. And it sounds like the filmmaker wouldn’t be opposed in the slightest.
While speaking with Variety about his new film, the Evil Dead Rise director had this to say about the possibility of a sequel, “I’m gonna repeat the best advice I was ever given, by people that know how to make movie franchises work, which is the brilliant execs over at New Line, Rich Brener and Dave Neustadter, and they’ll always say: we let the audience decide.”
Continued Cronin, “I’m very audience focused. But I absolutely adore the characters in this world, and we’ve dipped our toes into a much, much bigger lore. And if the audience really like this world and this universe, then there’s no doubt there would be conversations about how we would continue to grow it. And as the originator and creator of it, I’d want to be pretty involved with that.“
He added, “And I think there are great opportunities, because this movie is on a timeline. It’s about a family in the here and now in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that are being affected by the choice another family made in Egypt 3000 years ago. So, no pun intended, I think there is a sandpit.”
It sure sounds like Cronin is more than open to the possibility of a sequel if audiences give enough of a reason for the franchise to crawl back out of the sand. Whether or not he’d return behind the camera, we’ll just have to wait and see.
In The Mummy, a journalist’s young daughter 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.
Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (“The Wheel of Time”), May Calamawy (“Moon Knight”), Natalie Grace (“1923”), and Veronica Falcón (“Ozark”) star.
In his review of , Dread’s Josh Korngut wrote, “The film attempts to build an emotional spine strong enough to make its brutality really string, and not just shock, by centering the ghoulish story on a young girl and her grieving, all-American nuclear family. But that never lands. While the same gonzo nastiness that worked so well in bleeds through, that violence registers as simply gross rather than actually painful without any characters to actually care about.”