Jack Reynor to star in Lee Cronin's The Mummy

Jack Reynor is set to star in Irish filmmaker Lee Cronin's reboot of The Mummy.

Details of the plot have not been released, however Reynor's role has been described as "a husband and father who runs afoul of supernaturally sinister forces."

"This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before," Cronin said when the film was announced last year. "I'm digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening."

Co-financed by Atomic Monster and Blumhouse, the project will be produced by Cronin's company, Dopplegängers. Production is set to begin next week in Ireland and Spain.

The film is expected to release on April 17, 2026.

Reynor, from Co Wicklow, has appeared in multiple high-profile roles, including Transformers: Age of Extinction alongside Mark Wahlberg, John Carney's Sing Street and Ari Aster's folk-horror sensation Midsommar. Recently the Irish-American actor appeared in Netlifx's drama series The Perfect Couple.

Dublin writer and director Cronin released his debut feature film The Hole in the Ground at 2019's Sundance Film Festival, which earned a strong positive response from critics. His next film, Evil Dead Rise, released through New Line Cinema in 2023 and was widely popular, grossing $147 million (€136 million) globally.