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The Mummy Movies
The Mummy is a film written and directed in 1999 by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, with Arnold Vosloo as the reanimated mummy of the title. The movie features dialogues in ancient Egyptian language with the assistance of a professional Egyptologist.
It is a loose remake of The Mummy (1932), which starred Boris Karloff as
the mummy. The Mummy does not take place at the famed Giza pyramids where
several Old Kingdom Egyptian kings (Egyptian monarchs were not yet called
pharaohs) were buried. Instead most of the action takes place in the fictitious
Hamunaptra the "City of the Dead" that lies "deep into the desert" beyond
Thebes. In 2001 a sequel was made, entitled The Mummy Returns. The movie
was novelized by Max Allan Collins. Collins novelized the sequel as well.
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