The Mummy (1999)

This movie is one of the bigger movie series out there. Almost each one deals with a mummy coming back from the dead.

Summary
-An English librarian obsessed with ancient Egypt hires a man named Rick O'Connell to take her and her brother to the ancient city of Hamunaptra. They discover that someone else is interested in this ancient dig site and unknowingly unleash the dead High Priest Imhotep, who was cursed at the time of his death.

Cast
-Brendan Fraser: Rick O'Connell
-Rachel Weisz: Evelyn Carnahan
-John Hannah: Jonathan Carnahan
-Arnold Vosloo: Imhotep
-Kevin J. O'Connor: Beni Gabor
-Jonathan Hyde: Dr. Allen Chamberlain
-Oded Fehr: Ardeth Bay
-Eric Avari: Dr. Terrence Bey
-Stephen Dunham: Mr. Henderson
-Corey Johnson: Mr. Daniels
-Tuc Watkins: Mr. Burns
-Omid Djalilli: Warden Gad Hassan
-Bernard Fox: Captain Winston Havelock
-Patricia Velasquez: Anck Su Namun

Did You Know?
-During the scene where Brendan Fraser's character was hanged, he nearly died. Rachel Weisz said that he had stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated
-Most of Patricia Velasquez's costume was body paint, which took four hours to apply. Other than that, the only other costume pieces was a loin cloth and some jewelry

-To make sure the ancient Egyptian spoken in the movie was accurate, an Egyptologist had phonetically rendered what the language would have sounded like
-To keep the PG-13 rating, the white nightgown Evelyn wore had to be digitally painted white because it became transparent when wet
-The morning after the film's release, director Stephen Sommers was contacted by Universal and told "We need another one". Obviously they already saw the success of the film and wanted a sequel
-Originally, the voice over in the beginning of the movie was supposed to be done by Imhotep. But since he would not know English, it was given to the character Ardeth Bay instead
-In real life, Imhotep was an architect. He was the one who first developed the great pyramids, especially the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara in 2600 BC. He was not a villain as shown in the movie, but a highly revered architect and physician
-Historically, the Medjai were tattooed from head to toe. Stephen Sommers didn't want Oded Fehr tattooed like that because he considered the Israeli-born actor "too good looking" to cover up

-When Imhotep was creating the sandstorm in the desert, the camera had to quickly go up. The reason being that the wind machines kept blowing up the cape and loincloth worn by Arnold Vosloo, exposing his bare backside
-The prison where Evelyn first meets O'Connell was filmed at an apartment complex in Marrakech
-The whole production had the protection of the Moroccan Army behind them as well as kidnapping insurance taken out on everyone. This was a fact that Stephen Sommers told everyone only after the shooting had finished
-Due to unstable political conditions, filming could not be done in Egypt
-Ardeth Bay is an anagram of Death by Ra, the protector of mankind from the mummy Imhotep
-There were many health risks filming in the scorching Sahara sun. Medics had created a special drink for everyone to consume every two hours. Sandstorms were constant. Medics had to airlift people out due to snake bites, spider bites and scorpion stings
-Even though the title of the movie is The Mummy, the title character was never mummified. He suffered a far more gruesome death called the Hom Dai, which was a very brutal way to go only used for the most extreme of circumstances. The ancient Egyptians feared it so much they dare not perform it unless absolutely necessary

-Rick O'Connell mentions he was in the French Foreign Legion. He mentions he was a lieutenant. This is incorrect; as an American, he could certainly serve in the Legion, but lieutenants are required to be French nationals
-This was the first major screen role for Oded Fehr
-The building used for the Cairo Museum was really a government building in Marrakech
-During the scenes of the Bedouin trading post and Royal Air Force runways, there are children visible. These were local children from in and around Marrakech
-Both Arnold Vosloo and Oded Fehr appeared on the television series Charmed, playing warlocks


Oded Fehr, Charmed

Arnold Vosloo, Charmed

-Once again, Arnold Vosloo and Oded Fehr appeared together on another television series-NCIS, both playing Israeli Mossad agents

Arnold Vosloo, NCIS. Playing an Israeli Mossad agent



Oded Fehr, NCIS. Playing an Israeli Mossad agent

-Omid Djalilli, who is a British-Iranian comedian, made his acting debut in this film

-Jonathan Hyde, who plays a British Egyptologist, is in real life Australian. He was born and raised in Brisbane, which is a city in Queensland, Australia