Writer and director Lee Cronin is currently focusing on the release of his audacious and twisted retelling, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy. The movie is about the young daughter of a journalist, who 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 Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace and Veronica Falcón. The film is written and directed by Cronin and produced by James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville. The executive producers are Michael Clear, Judson Scott, Macdara Kelleher and Lee Cronin.

Talking about working with Jack Reynor, who plays Katie’s father in the film, Cronin says, “I was really excited to work with Jack Reynor. As a fellow Irishman, I’ve known him and admired his work from afar for a number of years. And when Jack read the script, I think I was in Spain doing some scouting for the movie, and I woke up to a text. ‘When can we talk?’ He was really motivated from the start and that’s a huge, huge thing. He really got it.”

Cronin further added, “Jack also understands genre really intimately, so it was great to have someone in a leading role that you could riff on what you love about genre work and where, how and why things work. Jack brought great leadership to the set. He played the role with a real honesty, and that was something, across the board with the cast for me in this movie – I wanted everybody to be really naturalistic performers, as in if there was no horror at play, we would still go on this emotional journey with them. Jack led the way.”

The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is slated to be released in India on April 17, 2026 in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

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