When in doubt, return to the 1990s for inspiration. Anaconda and The Mummy, two movies from the late 1990s, are getting reimagined into new movies. The Anaconda reboot will be released on Christmas Day 2025. Meanwhile, a new horror adaptation of The Mummy will arrive on April 17, 2026.
Let’s start with the giant snake. Jack Black and Paul Rudd are set to star in Sony’s comedy reimagining of Anaconda. Daniela Melchior will also star. Tom Gormican directs Anaconda from a screenplay he cowrote with Kevin Etten. Gormican and Etten previously collaborated on The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
1997’s Anaconda followed a team of documentarians fighting for their survival in the Amazon with the massive titular snake. Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Jon Voight starred in Anaconda, directed by Luis Llosa. Anaconda grossed over $136 million and spawned four sequels.
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In a video announcement, Black and Rudd promised that there will be a “big f****** snake” in their movie.
The Mummy stems from Lee Cronin, the filmmaker behind 2023’s Evil Dead Rise. Cronin will write and direct The Mummy for New Line Cinema. Blumhouse and Atomic Monster will produce along with Cronin’s Doppelgängers banner.
While plot details remain under wraps, Cronin released a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on what fans can expect with this new retelling of The Mummy.
“This will be unlike any Mummy movie you ever laid eyeballs on before,” Cronin said. “I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.”
The Mummy is one of the iconic characters in the Universal Monsters franchise from the 1930s. The property later shifted from horror to an adventure movie in 1999’s The Mummy with Brendan Fraser. After three movies with Fraser, Tom Cruise starred in The Mummy reboot from 2017.
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