The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

This is the third installment of The Mummy series. This one completely moves away from ancient Egypt and instead moves on to ancient China.

Summary
-When Alex O'Connell is excavating at a dig site in China, he unearths the first emperor of the Qin dynasty-a brutal, shape-shifting creature who was cursed by a witch long ago.

Cast
-Brendan Fraser: Rick O'Connell
-Jet Li: Emperor
-Maria Bello: Evelyn O'Connell
-John Hannah: Jonathan Carnahan
-Michelle Yeoh: Zi Yuan
-Luke Ford: Alex O'Connell
-Isabella Leong: Lin
-Anthony Chau-Sang Wong: General Yang
-Russell Wong: Ming Guo
-Liam Cunningham: Roger Wilson

Did You Know?
-Jet Li was only available for part of the shoot. To do his scenes as the Dragon Emperor, it was decided that his character would be seen as either a rotting mummy or as a terracotta mummy. It was done this way so that he could do his live scenes and the remainder would be done through CGI
-In the scene with the tombs, the crossbow traps were based on real life. According to Chinese archaeologists, there were similar traps when archaeologists tried excavating the site of the Terra Cotta Army
-In the movie, there is a device that triggers a trap by dropping a small bronze ball from a dragon's mouth into a frog's mouth. This is said to be inspired by an ancient machine that could predict what direction an earthquake was coming from and is considered to be the father of the modern seismograph
-The scenes in the Himalayan Mountains were actually filmed in summer heat on a soundstage
-This was the Hollywood debut for Chinese martial arts legend Wu Jing, who appeared as one of the soldiers having a brief battle with Jet Li at the start of the movie
-Rob Cohen, director of the movie, had always been incredibly fascinated with Chinese history and culture. When he was approached about filming a movie in China, he was all for it. He wanted the movie to be filmed in China as much as possible and also to pay respect to the culture, he wanted Chinese history and culture to be depicted as accurately as possible
-This movie involves another collaboration between Jet Li and Russell Wong. The first movie starring the two martial artist/actors was 2000's Romeo Must Die