The Mummy Reboot Hit With Three Month Delay

Conflicting reports may have raised question marks over Tom Cruise’s actual involvement in Universal’s upcoming The Mummy reboot, but yesterday the studio has secured the Mission: Impossible stalwart for the monster movie with a new release date to boot.

Previously slated to open on March 24, 2017, Alex Kurtzman’s reimagining will now loom into theaters in all of its mythic glory on June 9, 2017. That’s almost a full year after the film’s original release date of June 24, 2016, which has been shuffled around as Universal maps out the formative entries into its budding ‘Universal Monsters’ shared universe. Words has it that The Mummy of 2017 will be set in the present day, tackling the ancient Egyptian lore from a different angle entirely than the Brendan Fraser-fronted adventure flicks.

Reports has it that Tom Cruise “isn’t expected to produce, but he will play a major part in development.