The Mummy is a 1999 American action horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same title and stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. The film follows adventurer Rick O'Connell as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with a librarian and her older brother, where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a cursed high priest from the reign of the Pharaoh Seti I of 1290 B.C. Filming began in Marrakech, Morocco, on May 4, 1998, and lasted seventeen weeks.
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The Mummy (1999 film)
The Mummy (1999 film) | Introduction
No, it is a remake of the 1932 film No, its a remake. No, it is a remake of the 1932 film. No, it is a remake of the 1932 film
who played the mummy in the old movies
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Boris Karloff
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has he also acted in any other film?
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Yes - Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Son of Frankenstein (1939).
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where is he from?
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Surrey (now London), England.
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what is the 1999 version of the film about?
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The film follows adventurer Rick O'Connell as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with a librarian and her older brother, where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a cursed high priest from the reign of the Pharaoh Seti I of 1290 B.C.
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what is the genre of this film?
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Action horror film
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is the place where the character travels to a real place?
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No -It is a fictional Egyptian city in the film.
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who released this film?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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who is the director of this film?
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Stephen Sommers.
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who was he?
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American film director and screenwriter
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can you name some other films he has directed?
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The Mummy Returns (2001) ; Van Helsing (2004) ; The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) ; The Jungle Book (1994)
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is the 1999 version a continuation of the the 1932 version?
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This film spawned two sequels with "The Mummy Returns" (2001) and "" (2008). "The Mummy Returns" also spawned a prequel spin-off of that sequel, "The Scorpion King" (2002), which in turn spawned a prequel, "" (2008), and three sequels, "" (2012), "" (2015) and "" (2018). Also, a short-lived animated series simply titled "The Mummy" ran from 2001 to 2003.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Remake series
The much later Universal film "The Mummy" (1999) also suggests that it is a remake of the 1932 film, but has a different story line. However, in common with most postmodern remakes of classic horror and science-fiction films, it may be considered as such in that it is produced-distributed by the same studio, its titular character is again named Imhotep, resurrected by the Book of the Dead, and out to find the present-day embodiment of the soul of his beloved Anck-su-namun, and features an Egyptian named Ardeth Bay (in this case, a guard of the city and of Imhotep's tomb).
The Mummy (1932 film) | Remake series
In the late 1950s, British Hammer Film Productions took up the "Mummy" theme, beginning with "The Mummy" (1959), which, rather than being a remake of the 1932 Karloff film, is based on Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942). Hammer's follow-ups — "The Curse of The Mummy's Tomb" (1964), "The Mummy's Shroud" (1966) and "Blood from The Mummy's Tomb" (1971) — are unrelated to the first film or even to each other, apart from the appearance of "The Scroll of Life" in "Curse of The Mummy's Tomb" and "Blood from The Mummy's Tomb".
The Mummy (1932 film) | Hammer Film Productions series
Muller, Frank calls Helen back to the world of the living while the Scroll of Thoth continues to burn.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Plot
The story was continued in the 1944 film, "The Mummy's Ghost". The film was released on October 23, 1942 by Universal Pictures on a double bill with "Night Monster". It was re-released in February, 1948 by Universal through Realart Pictures and went to television as part of the original "Shock Theater" package of 52 Universal titles syndicated in 1957.
The Mummy's Tomb | Production and release
In 2012, Universal announced a reboot of the film, more in-line with the horror films, from the Universal Monsters film franchise. The reboot was directed by Alex Kurtzman. "The Mummy" was planned as the first film in a series of interconnected monster films, as Universal has planned to build a shared universe film series out of its vault of classic monster movies. On January 21, 2016 it was announced that Tom Cruise would be starring in the film. Sofia Boutella was cast to portray Princess Ahmunet / The Mummy for the film, while Russell Crowe would appear as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Reboot
Originally a proposed remake of "The Mummy" would have been directed by horror filmmaker/writer Clive Barker. Barker's vision for the film was violent, with the story revolving around the head of a contemporary art museum who turns out to be a cultist trying to reanimate mummies. Barker's take was "dark, sexual and filled with mysticism", and that, "it would have been a great low-budget movie". In 1999, Stephen Sommers wrote and directed a remake of "The Mummy", loosely based on the original film of 1932. This film switches genres from the emphasis on horror to adventure, concentrating more on action sequences, special effects, comedy, and a higher element of Egyptian lore.
The Mummy (franchise) | Stephen Sommers series (1999–2008)
The original series of films consisted of six installments, which starred iconic horror actors such as Boris Karloff (only in the original one, as Imhotep); Tom Tyler and Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis; and lastly Eddie Parker, who played Klaris, a cousin of Kharis. The series of films is part of the larger Universal Classic Monsters series.
The Mummy (franchise) | Universal Classic Monsters film series (1932–1955)
The character name Joseph Whemple, the use of a sacred scroll, and a few minor plot elements are the only connections with the 1932 version.
The Mummy (1959 film) | Introduction
Unlike other Universal Monsters films, "The Mummy" had no official sequels, but rather was reimagined in "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and its sequels, "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944), "The Mummy's Curse" (1944), and the studios' comedy–horror crossover movie "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" (1955). These films focus on the titular character named Kharis (Klaris in the Abbott and Costello film). "The Mummy's Hand" recycled footage from the original film for use in the telling of Kharis' origins, where Karloff is clearly visible in several of these recycled scenes but was not credited. Lon Chaney Jr. played the Mummy in "The Mummy's Tomb", "The Mummy's Ghost", and "The Mummy's Curse".
The Mummy (1932 film) | Sequels
The story was based on a 1927 novel by J.B. Priestly. In December 1932, the studio released "The Mummy" starring Boris Karloff as the Egyptian monster. The film, based on an original screenplay, is about an ancient Egyptian mummy named Imhotep who is discovered by a team of archaeologists and inadvertently brought back to life through a magic scroll. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 93% score, based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's consensus states: "Relying more on mood and atmosphere than the thrills typical of modern horror fare, Universal's The Mummy sets a masterful template for mummy-themed films to follow." The Mummy character was so popular that it spawned sequels and remakes over the next decades.
Horror film | 1932: Edgar Allan Poe Double Feature and The Mummy
Anthony Hickox wrote 2012 the script of the remake "Prisoners of the Sun", which directed by Roger Christian and stars Joss Ackland, Carmen Chaplin, Nick Moran and John Rhys-Davies. The film will release in April 2015 in the United Kingdom on DVD and Blu-ray.
Dawn of the Mummy | Remake
In 1992, producers James Jacks and Sean Daniel decided to update the original 1932 "Mummy" film for the 1990s. Universal Studios gave them the go-ahead, but only if they kept the budget around $10 million. Jacks remembers that the studio "essentially wanted a low-budget horror franchise"; in response, Jacks and Daniel recruited horror filmmaker/writer Clive Barker on board to direct. Barker's vision for the film was violent, with the story revolving around the head of a contemporary art museum who turns out to be a cultist trying to reanimate mummies. Jacks recalls that Barker's take was "dark, sexual and filled with mysticism", and that, "it would have been a great low-budget movie".
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
The film is presumed to be lost.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Introduction
The special effects in the movie received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Special Effects. In September, "The Mummy's Hand" was released. Although it is sometimes claimed by fans as a sequel or follow-up to "The Mummy", it does not continue the 1932 film's storyline, or feature any of the same characters. "The Mummy's Hand" was the first of a series of four films all featuring the mummy named Kharis, the sequels being "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), "The Mummy's Ghost", and "The Mummy's Curse" (both 1944). Tom Tyler played Kharis in this film but Lon Chaney, Jr. took over the role for the following three sequels.
Horror film | Universal Classic Monsters (Numerous Sequels and the debut of The Wolf Man)
Imhotep is the titular antagonist in the 1932 film "The Mummy". He is also the main antagonist in the 1999 remake and its sequel "The Mummy Returns". Sofia Boutella plays a female version of this character named Ahmanet in the 2017 remake. Imhotep is loosely inspired by the historical figure Imhotep, a noted polymath and counselor to the Pharaoh Djoser in the 27th century BC.
Imhotep (The Mummy) | Introduction
The film was part of Universal Pictures' Dark Universe, an attempt to create a modern cinematic universe based on the classic Universal Monsters film series. A remake of "Bride of Frankenstein" was originally scheduled for release on February 14, 2019, but on October 5, 2017, Universal decided to postpone it to allow more work to be done on the script. The 2014 film "Dracula Untold" was originally considered to be the first film in the series; however, since the film's release, the connection to the Dark Universe was downplayed, and "The Mummy" was re-positioned as the first film in the series.
The Mummy (2017 film) | Abandoned sequel
Set in 1946, the film continues the adventures of Rick O'Connell, his wife Evy, and his son Alex against a different mummy, the Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) of China. After "Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" was released, actress Maria Bello stated that another "Mummy" film will "absolutely" be made, and that she had already signed on. Actor Luke Ford was signed on for three films as well. But in 2012, Universal Pictures announced that they had cancelled the film and were focusing on a reboot.
The Mummy (franchise) | "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" (2008)
A glass fiber replica of a sarcophagus created for the film is in the collection of the Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
The Mummy (1959 film) | Surviving props
In 2001, she and a person from her party would have their picture taken with The Mummy, and a clip about creation of the make-up effects from "The Mummy Returns" was also added. In 2004, the show was given a large re-vamping and was changed from this previous version. The lobby was again revamped in 2008, to include displays on various Universal Horror films up to "Hellboy II: The Golden Army". In 2010, the show itself was again revamped to remove the "Van Helsing" clips which were replaced with clips from Universal's "The Wolfman" remake. In 2017, it was revamped to show clips from the recent "The Mummy" remake, replacing those from "The Wolfman".
Universal's Horror Make-Up Show | Previous versions
The others are The Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In the 1970s, novelizations of the original films were issued as paperback originals as part of a series written by "Carl Dreadstone," a pseudonym for British horror writer Ramsey Campbell.
The Wolf Man (1941 film) | Legacy
After several meetings, Barker and Universal lost interest and parted company. Director Joe Dante was the next choice, increasing the budget for his idea of Daniel Day-Lewis as a brooding Mummy. This version's draft was written by Alan Ormsby, and was later re-written by John Sayles. It was set in contemporary times and focused on reincarnation with elements of a love story. It came close to being made with some elements, like the flesh-eating scarabs, making it to the final product. However, at that point, the studio wanted a film with a budget of $15 million and rejected Dante's version.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
Some notable exceptions are "Anna Christie" (1930); "The Blue Angel" (1930); "Dracula"'s Spanish-language incarnation, "Drácula" (1931); "M" (1931); "The Threepenny Opera" (1931) and various Laurel and Hardy films.
Multiple-language version | Introduction
The 1999 remake of "The Mummy" was viewed primarily as a "reimagining" in a different genre (adventure). Similarly, when the 1969 film "The Italian Job" was remade in 2003, few aspects were carried over. Another example is the 1932 film "Scarface" which was remade in 1983 starring Al Pacino; the 1932 version is about the illegal alcohol trade, while the characters in the 1983 version are cocaine smugglers. Sometimes a remake is made by the same director. For example, Yasujirō Ozu's black-and-white "A Story of Floating Weeds" was remade into the color "Floating Weeds". Alfred Hitchcock remade his 1934 black-and-white "The Man Who Knew Too Much" in color in 1956.
Remake | Film
Hyde, two roles which had previously been portrayed by Boris Karloff in the studios' previous film franchise. In June 2017, the studio announced the name, logo, theme music (written by Danny Elfman), and upcoming schedule for the shared universe titled Dark Universe. It received negative reviews and is considered a box office bomb scrapping the plans for the upcoming films of the dark universe.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Reboot
The Mummy is a 1999 American action horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It is a remake of the 1932 film of the same title and stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. The film follows adventurer Rick O'Connell as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with a librarian and her older brother, where they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a cursed high priest from the reign of the Pharaoh Seti I of 1290 B.C. Filming began in Marrakech, Morocco, on May 4, 1998, and lasted seventeen weeks.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Introduction
According to the Robert Louis Stevenson website being archived and preserved by the British Library, subsequent to that acquisition MGM studio executives “hid the [1931] film away to avoid competition with their remake”. The 1931 version then, due to ongoing legal restrictions and the lack of readily available copies, was effectively “lost” for over a quarter of a century, not generally available again for rescreenings and study until 1967. MGM's 1941 remake 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 score was composed by Franz Waxman with uncredited contributions by Daniele Amfitheatrof and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) | Development
"The Constant Nymph" was remade by Warner Bros. in 1943, at which time all prints of the 1933 version were supposed to be destroyed, however, several prints did survive.
The Constant Nymph (1933 film) | Synopsis
The Mummy is a 1932 American pre-Code horror film directed by Karl Freund. The screenplay by John L. Balderston was from a story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer. Released by Universal Studios, the film stars Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan and Arthur Byron. The film is about an ancient Egyptian mummy named Imhotep who is discovered by a team of archaeologists and inadvertently brought back to life through a magic scroll. Disguised as a modern Egyptian named Ardeth Bay, Imhotep searches for his lost love, whom he believes has been reincarnated into a modern girl.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Introduction
The film was a success at the box office, particularly in the United Kingdom The film received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 88% score, based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 7.48/10. The site's consensus states: "Relying more on mood and atmosphere than the thrills typical of modern horror fare, Universal's "The Mummy" sets a masterful template for mummy-themed films to follow."
The Mummy (1932 film) | Reception
The film was shown again in Hungarian cinemas in 1945, 1956 and 1972. It is also shown regularly on the small screen and is still popular with viewers. Almost eighty years after its premiere, in 2008, the original film was digitally restored by the Hungarian National Film Archive. The restored version erroneously awarded director Sekely a writing credit that does not appear in either the original film titles or in any subsequent documentation. It has been released on DVD and Blu-ray.
Hyppolit, the Butler | Subsequent history
Furthermore, if one follows the continuity of the "Kharis" series, this film would have to take place in the late 1990s.
The Mummy's Curse | Introduction
The film was released on September 20, 1940 and was followed by a sequel titled "The Mummy's Tomb" in 1942.
The Mummy's Hand | Introduction
On April 4, 2012, Universal announced their plans to reboot the franchise. "The Mummy" was released in June 2017.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Reboot
In November 2001, director Stephen Sommers, who directed the previous "Mummy" films, said about directing a third film, "There is a demand for it, but most of the gang would only be up for it again if we could find a way to make it bigger and better." In May 2004, he expressed his doubts about having the energy to make a third film, though the cast of previous films had expressed interest in returning. In December 2005, he reviewed a script written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar was about a Chinese mummy (China's first emperor, who wants to take over the world with his army of accursed warriors in 1940).
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Development
In 1933, Rick O'Connell and Evelyn Carnahan are married with an 8-year-old son, Alex. When Alex triggers a curse and Imhotep is resurrected, Rick and Evy must once again try to save the world and defeat the mummy.
The Mummy (franchise) | "The Mummy Returns" (2001)
The enormous amount of pre-Code content (especially in the sequences in the harem) has probably contributed to the film's "lost" status. Two remakes, both in color, were made of the film, one in 1944 and the other in 1955. The 1955 version was an adaptation of the hit Broadway musical based on the play. Some sources claim that the original 1930 film featured Technicolor sequences. The film is considered lost, while the complete soundtrack of the film survives on Vitaphone disks. An outtake of the production does exist and can be seen.
Kismet (1930 film) | Preservation status
The show and lobby featured numerous other reincarnations in the past. From 1990 until 1997, the lobby featured posters from old Universal Horror films and also had a live introduction from The Phantom of the Opera. The lobby was changed in 1997 to hold a video and various displays and props from "". In 2001, it was again re-vamped to hold displays and a video from "The Mummy Returns". In 2004, the same refurbishment was done to add displays from "Van Helsing". It was mostly recently re-vamped in 2008. The main show itself had some minor refurbishments in the past to fit the re-theming of the lobby.
Universal's Horror Make-Up Show | Previous versions
In September 2013, news reported that "Mama"'s director Andrés Muschietti was in talks to direct the film. In October 2013, Orci hinted that both "The Mummy" and "Van Helsing" reboots would have a shared universe. November of 2013, Universal set the film to release on April 22, 2016. On May 6, 2014, director Muschetti left the film due to creative differences. On July 16, 2014, Universal announced that they had tapped Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan to develop all classic movie monsters which include Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Mummy.
The Mummy (franchise) | "The Mummy" (2017)
Original films: Tributes: The 1958 film "On Suez" is a strict sequel to "As Frogmen", continuing where the last movie left off. This is the only sign of consistent continuity in the series, apart from random mentions of events in previous films.
Pekka and Pätkä | List of movies
With the agreement in place, Hammer's executives had their pick of Universal International's horror icons and chose to remake "The Invisible Man", "The Phantom of the Opera", and "The Mummy's Hand". All were to be filmed in colour at Bray Studios, by the same team responsible for "The Curse of Frankenstein" and "Dracula". "The Mummy" (the title used for the remake of "The Mummy's Hand", which also incorporated significant story elements from that film's sequel, "The Mummy's Tomb") was made in 1959, "The Phantom of the Opera" followed in 1962, and Hammer collaborated with William Castle on a remake of "The Old Dark House" in 1963.
Hammer Film Productions | "The Mummy"
It is the year 1923 and Richard “Rick” O'Connell, an American explorer, has discovered Hamunaptra, the city of the dead. Three years later, he meets with a beautiful librarian, Evelyn "Evy" Carnahan and her brother, Jonathan. When Evy accidentally revives the mummified corpse of an Egyptian priest, Imhotep, the pair must find a way to kill him before he rises back into power and destroys the world.
The Mummy (franchise) | "The Mummy" (1999)
In 1921, an archaeological expedition led by Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron) finds the mummy of an ancient Egyptian high priest named Imhotep (Boris Karloff). An inspection of the mummy by Whemple's friend Dr. Muller (Edward Van Sloan) reveals that the viscera were not removed, and from the signs of struggling Muller deduces that although Imhotep had been wrapped like a traditional mummy, he had been buried alive. Also buried with Imhotep is a casket with a curse on it. Despite Muller's warning, Sir Joseph's assistant Ralph Norton (Bramwell Fletcher) opens it and finds an ancient life-giving scroll, the "Scroll of Thoth".
The Mummy (1932 film) | Plot
After the success of "Dracula", Hammer went on to produce eight sequels, six of which feature Lee reprising the titular role, and four of which feature Cushing reprising the role of Van Helsing.
Dracula (1958 film) | Sequels
The Mummy's Tomb is a 1942 American horror film produced by Ben Pivar for Universal Pictures Co., directed by Harold Young, and starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharis the mummy. It is the first of three sequels to that company's "The Mummy's Hand" of 1940.
The Mummy's Tomb | Introduction
The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. The film was distributed in the U.S. in 1959 on a double bill with either the Vincent Price film "The Bat" or the Universal film "Curse of the Undead". Though the title suggests Universal Pictures' 1932 film of the same title, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two 1940s Universal films, "The Mummy's Hand" and "The Mummy's Tomb", with the climax borrowed directly from "The Mummy's Ghost".
The Mummy (1959 film) | Introduction
"The Mummy's Hand" was distributed by Universal Pictures Co. on September 20, 1940. According to "Variety", their screening of the film had certain scenes tinted an "eerie green". The film was followed by the sequel "The Mummy's Tomb" in 1942 which followed the storyline of two key characters from "The Mummy's Hand" and included several minutes of footage from "The Mummy's Hand" flashback sequences. Unlike some of the other horror films produced by Universal, "The Mummy's Hand" was not reissued for theatrical release in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The Mummy's Hand | Release
The image of Karloff wrapped in bandages has become one of the most iconic images in the series. Jack Pierce would also come to design the Satanic make-up for Lugosi in the independently produced "White Zombie" (1932).
Horror film | 1932: Edgar Allan Poe Double Feature and The Mummy
The Mummy's Ghost is a 1944 American Universal Studios horror film, directed by Reginald Le Borg. It is the second of three sequels to that company's "The Mummy's Hand" of 1940. The film is the sequel to "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942). Lon Chaney, Jr. again takes on the role of Kharis the mummy. The story was continued in the 1944 sequel "The Mummy's Curse".
The Mummy's Ghost | Introduction
By 2019, Universal announced plans to return to standalone features instead of using a shared film narrative, which discontinues and cancels the Dark Universe.
The Mummy (2017 film) | Abandoned sequel
Attack of the Mayan Mummy is the Americanized version of an earlier Mexican movie, "The Aztec Mummy". It was made by Jerry Warren, who removed a huge portion of the original Mexican film, replacing it with newly filmed footage featuring American actors. This solved the problem of re-dubbing the original Spanish dialogue into English. Warren released his film in 1963. He later re-released the film in 1965 on a double feature with the film "Creature of the Walking Dead". The plot of the Americanized version is similar to the original, except that the mummy kills one of the explorers, and is in turn captured by the scientists and taken back to civilization.
The Aztec Mummy | "Attack of the Mayan Mummy"
The film never clarifies if this means he is indeed the original Dracula who survived his supposed end, or if he is a descendant by the same family name that also happens to be a vampire. However, he is described as his descendant in the 1943 press kit.
Son of Dracula (1943 film) | Themes
Inspired by the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the Curse of the Pharaohs, producer Carl Laemmle Jr. commissioned story editor Richard Schayer to find a literary novel to form a basis for an Egyptian-themed horror film, just as the novels "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" inspired their 1931 films "Dracula" and "Frankenstein". Schayer found none, although the plot bears a strong resemblance to a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled "The Ring of Thoth". Schayer and writer Nina Wilcox Putnam learned about Alessandro Cagliostro and wrote a nine-page treatment entitled "Cagliostro". The story, set in San Francisco, was about a 3,000-year-old magician who survives by injecting nitrates.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Production
"The Mummy"s box office performance led to numerous sequels and spinoffs. The film sequel "The Mummy Returns" (2001) features most of the surviving principal characters. As a married couple, Rick and Evelyn confront Imhotep and the Scorpion King. The film also introduces the heroes' son, Alex. The two films inspired both an animated TV series titled "The Mummy", which lasted two seasons, and a spin-off prequel, "The Scorpion King" (2002), which tells the story of the Akkadian warrior as he was crowned king. It also includes three sequels and one prequel.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Adaptations
After the commercial and critical success of "Dracula", Universal released "Frankenstein" later that same year. Universal in particular would become the forefront of early horror cinema, with a canon of films including "The Mummy" (1932), "The Invisible Man" (1933), "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935), and "The Wolf Man" (1941). In 1936, five years after release, Universal released "Dracula's Daughter", a direct sequel that starts immediately after the end of the first film. A second sequel, "Son of Dracula" starring Lon Chaney Jr., followed in 1943. The Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: 1944's "House of Frankenstein", 1945's "House of Dracula" and 1948's comedy "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein".
Dracula (1931 English-language film) | Sequels and influence
The Mummy is a 1911 American short silent film produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film details the story of Jack Thornton, a businessman, who is in love with Professor Dix's daughter. Jack purchases a mummy and plans to win his respect as an Egyptologist, but the mummy is reanimated in Jack's room by a live electrical wire. The mummy takes immediate interest in Jack, but is rejected and mummifies him. Before Professor Dix can cut up the now-mummified Jack, she returns and saves him. Jack explains everything and the film concludes with Professor Dix marrying the mummy. The production was one of several films of the same name produced in 1911 and was met with favorable reviews.
The Mummy (1911 film) | Introduction
Following a renewed interest of Horror films after the reissue of "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" in 1938, Universal planned to create a remake of "The Raven" with both Karloff and Lugosi.
The Raven (1935 film) | Release
The 96m 31s American print was cut down to 93m 19s by the removal of three sections of footage for a reissue by British Lion Films in 1948, and subsequently to 92m 44s by the removal of one more segment. A continuity script exists for a version of approximately 106m 04s, which contains all the material in the 96m 31s and 92m 44s versions, plus a number of other sequences. It is not known if a version of this duration was actually in circulation at any time, or if it was simply an intermediate stage between the premiere and release versions.
Things to Come | Duration, releases, and surviving versions
Thought to have been lost, the film was found as a result of a 1992 British Film Institute campaign to locate missing movies.
The Constant Nymph (1928 film) | Preservation status
Neither Rees nor Oliver have watched the finished sequels. In 2006, the official website of Hyperion Pictures posted an image of a possible fourth film in CGI; however, that film was never produced. The website has been inactive since then but was recently updated in 2019. Waterman Entertainment planned a remake, but it was never produced.
The Brave Little Toaster | Legacy
Rather than being a new film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, this "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a direct remake of the 1931 film of the same title. Both Hollywood productions differ greatly from the original literary work due to their heavy reliance on Thomas Russell Sullivan's 1887 stage adaptation of the story. The director for the 1941 film was Victor Fleming, who had directed "Gone with the Wind" and codirected "The Wizard of Oz", two major releases by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1939. MGM, where Fleming was under contract, acquired full rights to the 1931 film from Paramount Pictures prior to Fleming's production.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film) | Development
Hammer produced three other Mummy films between 1964 and 1971: These Mummy movies had stories and characters unrelated to the 1959 film and all three were relegated to second feature status, as by the mid-1960s, Hammer's films were often intended for double billing. Often two films would be shot back-to-back with the same sets and costumes to save money, and then each film would be shown on a separate double bill to prevent audiences noticing any recycling, as for example in "The Plague of the Zombies" and "The Reptile" (both 1966). "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" supported the slightly more prestigious "The Gorgon", whilst "The Mummy's Shroud" was a second feature for "Frankenstein Created Woman".
Hammer Film Productions | The Mummy
After escaping into the city sewer system, Karis embarks on a vengeful rampage against the various criminal fences and high society antiquarians who had acquired stolen relics from his tomb. Romero's script was considered too dark and violent by Jacks and the studio, who wanted a more accessible picture. Romero was unable to extricate himself from another contract he had in negotiation with MGM, and so his involvement with the film was severed and the development of an entirely new script was commissioned.
The Mummy (1999 film) | Origins
The film was based on a stage show of two acts and seven scenes which Wallace had written and appeared in the 1920s. It was one of a series of "revusicals" written by Wallace during this period.
His Royal Highness (1932 film) | Original Play
Universal Pictures, beginning as early as 2014, began developing a shared universe of rebooted modern-day versions of their classic Universal Monsters, with the studio having various films in different stages of development. The series began with "The Mummy" (2017) and was intended to be followed by the remake of "Bride of Frankenstein" in 2019 prior to the critical and commercial failure of "The Mummy." "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" was a remake also intended to be developed within the reboot with a story written by Jeff Pinkner and a script written by Will Beall. In June 2017, Kurtzman revealed that the Gill-man in this film would be from the Amazon.
Creature from the Black Lagoon | Reboot
The film was remade in 1938. Directed by George Cukor, it starred Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, with Horton reprising his role as Professor Nick Potter from the 1930 version.
Holiday (1930 film) | Remake
Seward) reprised for the English-language version of the 1931 Universal Studios film production. The 1931 film was one of the most commercially successful adaptations of the story to date; it and the Deane/Balderston play that preceded it set the standard for film and television adaptations of the story, with the alterations to the novel becoming standard for later adaptations for decades to come. Universal Studios continued to feature the character of Dracula in many of their horror films from the 1930s and 1940s. In 1958, film company Hammer Film Productions followed the success of its "The Curse of Frankenstein" from the previous year with "Dracula", released in the United States as "Horror of Dracula", directed by Terence Fisher.
Dracula | Adaptations
The film was retitled "The Mummy". Freund cast Zita Johann, who believed in reincarnation, and named her character 'Anck-su-namun' after the only wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The real Ankhesenamun's body had not been discovered in the tomb of King Tut and her resting place was unknown. Her name, however, would not have been unknown to the general public.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Production
On the other hand, some critics found the score lacked cohesion, and that the constant heavy action lent itself to annoying repetition. Roderick Scott off CineMusic.net summed up the score as "representative of both Goldsmith's absolute best and his most mediocre. Thankfully […] his favourable work on this release wins out."
The Mummy (1999 film) | Music
Following the financial success of the revival of the Frankenstein series with "Son of Frankenstein" and The Invisible Man series with "The Invisible Man Returns", Universal Pictures dediced to revive their "The Mummy" series series with "The Mummy's Hand". The film's budget was set at $80,000 and began filming towards the end of May 1940. The authors of the book "Universal Horrors" described the budget as "modest" and noted that cost-cutting for the film involved using stock shots taken from "The Mummy", leftover sets from James Whale's film "Green Hell", and musical scores almost entirely lifted from "Son of Frankenstein".
The Mummy's Hand | Production
For this reason, the Kharis films are not sequels to the original, as occasionally misperceived. Christopher Lee portrayed Kharis in the 1959 Hammer horror film "The Mummy".
Kharis | History
Another large set was constructed in the United Kingdom on the dockyard at Chatham which doubled for the Giza Port on the river Nile. This set was in length and featured "a steam train, an Ajax traction engine, three cranes, an open two-horse carriage, four horse-drawn carts, five dressing horses and grooms, nine pack donkeys and mules, as well as market stalls, Arab-clad vendors and room for 300 costumed extras".
The Mummy (1999 film) | Principal photography
This is the third film version of the 1919 novel with a 1919 film directed by James Cruze and a 1927 remake directed by Charles Brabin. The original film was lost up until 2010 when the film was presented to the Library of Congress by the Russian film archive Gosfilmofond.
Valley of the Giants (film) | Production
On April 4, 2012, Universal announced their plans to reboot the franchise. The film was intended to be the first installment of the Dark Universe, simply titled "The Mummy", and was released in June 2017.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor | Reboot
The original length of a film was , about four reels. In 1917, the film's last print caught fire due to the constant friction and the exposure to high temperatures while it was being transported from one theatre to another, by a bullock cart. Phalke readily re-shot the film to produce the version that exists today. However, only the first and last reels of the original film are preserved at the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) making it a partially lost film. Some film historians believe they actually belong to a 1917 remake of the film, titled "Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra".
Raja Harishchandra | Extant prints
After the film's original theatrical run, several theatrical reissues were promoted with new poster designs.
Dracula (1931 English-language film) | Posters
In 1993 this film was re-released as a comedy under the name "Hercules Returns". The original dialogue was overdubbed by Australian actors and a number of extra scenes were filmed.
Samson and His Mighty Challenge | Reinterpretation
The Mummy (also known as The Mummy: The Animated Series) is an American animated series produced by Universal Cartoon Studios based on the 1999 film of the same name. It premiered on Kids' WB on The WB network on September 22, 2001. It is set sometime between 1930 and 1934. It was retooled and renamed The Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai for its second and final season, which began on February 8, 2003. The show was cancelled on June 7, 2003. Reruns of the show still aired on Kids' WB until it was removed from its Saturday morning lineup around July 2003.
The Mummy (TV series) | Introduction
The process was complicated by the poor quality of some of the films. Robert Gitt, the UCLA Preservation Officer, commented that, "the copies of the films that survive are many generations removed from the original, and flaws have been photographed and re-photographed into these copies." "The Scarlet Claw" and "Pursuit to Algiers" were both in very poor condition and "Dressed to Kill" was missing a complete 35mm title sequence. This being the case, the restorers had to blow up a 16mm print to replace the missing footage.
Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series) | UCLA Restoration and colourised versions
"Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" was a modern-day take on Bram Stoker's "The Jewel of Seven Stars" and featured Valerie Leon as a reincarnated Egyptian princess, rather than a Mummy. The same novel served as the basis for the 1980 Charlton Heston film "The Awakening" and a later direct-to-video feature, "Bram Stoker's The Mummy", starring Lou Gossett Jr.
Hammer Film Productions | The Mummy
It was reissued in the United States on 16 December 1964, when it was released with "Dracula" (1958). The film was remastered in the open matte aspect ratio of 1.37:1 for its 2013 release on Blu-ray. The restored film includes the magnified eyeball shot, missing from the U.S print, but not the head in the acid bath scene which remains lost.
The Curse of Frankenstein | Release
W. Pabst directed "The Mistress of Atlantis" from 1932. 1932 saw the release of the Universal Studios monster movie "The Mummy" which combined horror with a romantic fantasy twist. more light-hearted and comedic affairs from the decade include films like 1934s romantic drama film "Death Takes a Holiday" where Fredric March plays Death who takes a human body to experience life for three days and 1937s "Topper" where a man is haunted by two fun-loving ghosts who try to make his life a little more exciting.
Fantasy film | 1930s
The project will be a joint production between Universal Pictures and Atomic Monster Productions.
Frankenstein (1931 film) | Reboot
Sherman.
The Jungle Book (1967 film) | Legacy
Hammer Studios originally offered the project to Universal Pictures in 1963. The film credits Henry Younger as the screenwriter, while the screenplay was written by Michael Carreras and Alvin Rakoff.
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb | Production
Originally the scenes of Kharis's tongue being cut out and shotgun demise were more graphic, but were trimmed for the British censor. In the video, "Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror", Peter Cushing claims that he suggested the scene in which he drives a spear through the mummy. He was inspired by the pre-release poster (see image above) which shows the mummy with a shaft of light passing through it.
The Mummy (1959 film) | Production
The Final Edition is a 1932 film by Columbia Pictures starring Pat O'Brien and Mae Clark, based on a story by Roy Chanslor.
The Final Edition | Introduction
I’m no longer involved in that and have no idea what’s going on with it. I look back on it now [and] what felt painful at the time ended up being an incredible blessing for me."
The Mummy (2017 film) | Development
There was a British silent version in 1922; and a previous UK/German co-production of "The Crimson Circle", produced in the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system, which was trade-shown in London in March 1929, along with an early sound version of Wallace's "The Clue of the New Pin".
The Crimson Circle (1936 film) | Earlier versions
In 1922, the film was edited down to 3 reels, and released as a "Pathé Playlet".
The Great Adventure (1918 film) | Re-release
in 1963 by producer Jerry Warren as "Attack of the Mayan Mummy".
The Aztec Mummy | Introduction
In addition to the revival of the 1930s original, a New York City Center Encores! staged concert version ran in February 1999. It was directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall and featured Erin Dilly, David Campbell, Jessica Stone and Christopher Fitzgerald. The Cohoes Music Hall presented a reconstructed version of the 1937 production under the supervision of Richard Rodgers in 1976. This production was choreographed by Dennis Grimaldi and directed by David Kitchen and Dennis Grimaldi.
Babes in Arms | Revivals of original 1930s version
This film follows after the events at the end of the previous film where Ananka and Kharis perish in the swamp. The original working title for this film—the fifth in Universal's "Mummy" series—was "The Mummy's Return".
The Mummy's Curse | Themes
Pleased with the Cagliostro concept, Laemmle hired John L. Balderston to write the script. Balderston had contributed to "Dracula" and "Frankenstein", and had covered the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb for "New York World" when he was a journalist so he was more than familiar with the highly popular tomb unearthing. Balderston moved the story to Egypt and renamed the film and its title character Imhotep, after the historical architect. He also changed the story from one of revenge upon all the women who resembled the main character's ex-lover to one where the main character is determined to revive his old love by killing and mummifying her reincarnated self before resurrecting her with the spell of the Scroll of Thoth.
The Mummy (1932 film) | Production
The film debuted on VHS and DVD on October 2, 2001. It was subsequently released on the high-definition Blu-ray format in July 2008, and on 4K in 2017.
The Mummy Returns | Home media
Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for big-budget movies, such as "The Mummy" (1999), its sequel, "The Mummy Returns" (2001), "Van Helsing" (2004), and "" (2009). He also directed "The Adventures of Huck Finn" (1993), Disney's live action version of "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book" (1994) and the cult classic horror film "Deep Rising" (1998).
Stephen Sommers | Introduction
The Mummy Returns is a 2001 American action-adventure fantasy horror film, written and directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, Patricia Velásquez, and Dwayne Johnson. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film "The Mummy". It was distributed by Universal Pictures. "The Mummy Returns" inspired the 2002 prequel film "The Scorpion King", a spin-off which is set 5,000 years prior and whose eponymous character, played by Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), was introduced in this film. "The Mummy Returns" was a commercial success despite mixed reviews. It was followed by the 2008 sequel "".
The Mummy Returns | Introduction
This is a partial remake of the 1924 Koko animated short, "The Cure." It is also Koko's last theatrical appearance. (For more information about Koko, see Koko the Clown).
Ha! Ha! Ha! (1934 film) | Production notes
Mummy's Boys is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Fred Guiol and written by Jack Townley, Philip G. Epstein and Charles E. Roberts. The film stars Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Barbara Pepper, Moroni Olsen, Frank M. Thomas and Willie Best. The film was released on October 2, 1936, by RKO Pictures.
Mummy's Boys | Introduction
The film was adapted into a 12-page comic strip for the July 1978 issue of the magazine "Hammer's Halls of Horror". It was drawn by David Jackson from a script by Steve Moore. The cover of the issue featured a painting by Brian Lewis of Christopher Lee as Kharis. The film is cited as a particular influence on the "Doctor Who" serial "Pyramids of Mars" (1975).
The Mummy (1959 film) | In other media