Universal maakte in 1999 een remake van The Mummy (1932) met Brendan Fraser in de hoofdrol. dit bleek een succes want er volgden meerdere sequels en spin-offs. Bij gebrek aan originele ideeën maken Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci en Prometheus co-scenarist Jon Spaihts nu werk van alweer een nieuwe remake. In tegenstelling tot eerdere The Mummy films zal het verhaal zich dit keer afspelen in de moderne tijd.

Kurtzman, Orci en Spaiths hebben zelfs al in gedachten wie de herziening op zich moet gaan nemen. Len Wiseman, de regisseur van Total Recall, Die Hard 4 en twee Underworld films, zou de aangewezen man zijn voor de klus. Wiseman zegt er het volgende over:

When I first heard Universal was relaunching this, that is the image that popped into my head, the period tale, the old monster, but when Bob and Alex pitched it, there was a great new take and approach, and a very different mummy as well. It’s a darker twist on the material, a scarier version.

Ook Kurtzman had iets te melden over de remake:

We’re reaching into the deep roots of The Mummy, which at its beating heart is a horror movie and then an action movie, and putting it into a context that is real and emotional. It’s still a four quadrant film but as a lot of recent movies have proven, audiences are hungry for more than they used to be. You can still have a family movie, an action movie that’s more grounded than these used to be. Without saying too much, we’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from Michael Crichton’s books, and how he ground fantastical sales in modern day science.

Wiseman voegde hier het volgende aan toe:

One of the things that interested me with this mummy is, he’s still in essence a man. They haven’t turned his brain into a monster brain. He still has a personality and is very cunning and calculating. He’s a true character in any form, and in creature form, even if he is that staggering creature, it becomes more important that he’s a thinking, calculating person.

The Mummy moet in de zomer van 2014 uitkomen.