Cast of The Mummy Stun at World Premiere

The Cast of the chilling new horror film The Mummy, hit the red carpet for the World Premiere. We’ve also got some thrilling behind-the-scenes talk from the director himself, Lee Cronin, and Producer and Scare-Extraordinaire James Wan. Check out the big smiles, red carpet looks and more below!

LEE CRONIN (Director / Writer / Executive Producer) On finding the story of his new film.

LEE CRONIN: One of the things for me that I enjoy about being a filmmaker is not necessarily knowing what’s around the corner. And I didn’t necessarily think making a movie about a mummy or a movie called THE MUMMY would be next up on my dance card until conversation started around the topic of how maybe there hasn’t been a truly terrifying version made before. That drew my interest in, but as always, I needed to find a story. And once I did that—I found a piece of lore, a set of characters I was interested in, a story that takes place at two different times around the same people—I started to get really engaged and involved with what this thing could become. And it’s always hard to quantify or put your finger on, but a story at that point, if it gets its claws under your skin like it’s got you, I find it hard to let go.

LEE CRONIN: With this film, I wanted to tell a story about a buried secret. The Mummy’s in Egyptian lore. They’re always about secrets, things that you discover later on, but I also knew it wasn’t going to be something that was going to take place over 3,000 or 4,000 years, even though there is lore and elements of this story that do have that depth buried in the mystery. There are connections that go back thousands and thousands of years, but the key story is about someone who goes missing and gets returned, not necessarily sooner than expected, but sooner than an entire lifetime having passed. So, it felt like investigating that mystery— being able to get under the skin of that—was going to be a really interesting part and a real point of difference in this movie, and something I’ve always loved and enjoyed.

James Wan and Jason Blum on working with Cronin

JAMES WAN & JASON BLUM: We’ve been a big fan of Lee’s for a while, since his previous movies, and we just felt that we wanted to do something different. We wanted it to be a scary film, visceral in a powerful way, and for it to stand apart from the previous iterations of the Mummy franchises. And when we met with Lee, he felt the same way and so we just left him to it. Our shared vision was in line — we wanted to make something unique, special, and that can proudly stand with the greats in this long lasting franchise.

Jason Blum on the Ancient Mystery of Egypt and bringing it to film

JASON BLUM: I actually went to Egypt with my wife a few years ago and we toured all different places. One of the things that stuck out to me the most is the tombs where the pharaohs were buried, and how much of what’s inside has survived thousands of years. All these stories that are told, some of which we understand, some of which we don’t. I think one of the things that’s very unnerving about Lee’s movie is that it expands on these mysteries of how this ancient civilization thrived in such an extraordinary way. And so much of it is undiscovered and still mysterious to us.