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The Mummy is a 1999 American horror, fantasy, action, and comedy film directed by Stephen Sommers. The screenplay was written by John L. Balderston, Stephen Sommers, and Kevin Jarre, with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The cast includes Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Arnold Vosloo, with Oded Fehr serving as narrator. Produced by Sean Daniel and James Jacks under the Alphaville production company, the film was distributed by Universal Pictures, Netflix, Ivi.ru, and Microsoft Store.
Filmed in Morocco and England, the movie has a runtime of 124 minutes and was released on April 16, 1999. It was based on the work The Mummy and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Sound. The film’s box office revenue is listed as 415,885,488, with a budget of 80,000,000. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.1 based on 503,547 votes and a TMDb vote average of 6.971 from 9,970 votes. The Mummy Returns followed this film.
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7.0Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.
Cast
- Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell
- Rachel Weisz as Evelyn Carnahan
- John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan
- Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep
- Patricia Velásquez as Anck-Su-Namun
- Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay
Themes
- egypt
- cairo
- library
- secret passage
- pastor
- pyramid
- sandstorm
- solar eclipse
- mummy
- foreign legion
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The Mummy is a 1999 American action-adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers, and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Arnold Vosloo. A loose remake of the 1932 film of the same name, The Mummy follows adventurer and treasure hunter Rick O'Connell (Fraser) as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with librarian Evelyn Carnahan (Weisz) and her older brother Jonathan (Hannah), where they accidentally awaken Imhotep (Vosloo), a cursed high priest with supernatural powers.
Development took years, with multiple screenplays and directors attached. Sommers successfully pitched his version of a more adventurous and romantic take on the source material. Filming took place in Morocco and the United Kingdom; the crew endured dehydration, sandstorms and snakes shooting on location in the Sahara Desert. Industrial Light & Magic provided many of the visual effects, blending live-action footage and computer-generated imagery to create Imhotep, while Jerry Goldsmith composed the orchestral score.
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