The movie that was remade to make the 2017 film The Mummy was itself a remake of an earlier film also with that name.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) . The MGM version was produced by Victor Saville and adapted by John Lee Mahin from the screenplay of the earlier film by Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein . The Mummy (2017 film) . It is a reboot of The Mummy franchise and the first installment in the Dark Universe film series .