It also co-stars Russell Crowe as Dr. Henry Jekyll, and packs support from Sofia Boutella (as the mummy), Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson and Courtney B. Vance.
Finally, Universal has slotted The Mummy into a prime summer weekend window, opening it in theaters on June 9, 2017.
The character of Van Helsing would be very important to a developing Universal Horror Shared Universe, but so much of that process depends on The Mummy connecting with a larger audience than Dracula Untold did.