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Nerding Out About: The Mummy (1999)

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  • The Cast
    • Brendan Fraser - Rick O'Connell
      • Nearly killed during the hanging scene
      • It's rumored that the role was originally offered to DiCaprio, and he couldn't take it because he was filming The Beach
        • Supposedly the role was also offered to Sylvester Stallone
    • Rachel Weisz - Evelyn Carnahan
    • John Hannah - Jonathan Carnahan
    • ARnold Vosloo - Imhotep
      • The name Imhotep was after an architect who developed the first pyramids. It means "One who comes in peace"
    • Kevin J. O'Connor - Beni Gabor
    • Bernard Fox - Captain Winston Havlock
      • This was his last film
  • The Crew
    • Written and Directed by Stephen Sommers
      • Directing & Writing credits:
        • Deep Rising, Mummy Returns, Scorpion King, GI Joe: Rise of Cobra
      • The day after the film was released, Universal called Sommers and requested a sequel
  • Conversation Points:
    • Let's get down to the important question:
      • Do the visual effects of this movie hold up?
        • The film set aside $20 Million for special effects
        • Visual Effects were supervised by John Andrew Berton Jr.
          • Worked on Teminator 2, Star Wars, Death Becomes her, Jurassic Park and Baby's Day Out
    • The Upcoming Reboot
      • Starring Tom Cruise and Annabelle Wallis
      • First film to have a female playing "The Mummy" - Sofia Boutella
      • Alex Kurtzman is directing
        • Known for his work on Amazing Spider-Man 2, Star Trek and Transformers
      • Will be set in Present day
      • Due for release on June 8, 2017
  • Movie Factoids:
    • Makeup on Patricia Velasquez, Anck Su Namun, took 14 hours to apply
    • INCREDIBLE: It was discovered that one of the cloaks leant to this film by a British costume rental company was made for Alec Guinness in Star Wars
    • Clive Barker was originally attached to this project
      • Had a very violent film concept, focusing on the head of an art museum who is a cultist trying to reanimate mummies.
    • Imhoteps victims, the dried out dead people, were plastic dummies used in the 1985 sci-fi film Lifeforce. One character even says the Mummy sucks the "lifeforce" out of people.

  • This movie was a pain in the ass to make

    • Not only did it only almost kill Fraser, but dehydration, sandstorms, snake, spider and scorpion bites were a common occurance (in the Sahara). The crew also needed kidnapping insurance
    • The film was not shot in Egypt at all
  • Joe Dante would have cast Daniel Day Lewis as the mummy.
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