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| - The Mummy trilogy is a trilogy of movies that features mummies. (1999, 2001, 2008) There is also an animated series (2001-2003). The first movie was a loose remake of the original film. Instead of being straight horror, it was more of an action-adventure with a dash of comedy. It featured actors Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah. They played Rick O'Connell, Evelyn Carnahan, and Jonathan Carnahan, respectively and their quest was to find ancient artifacts and treasure. They end up, as a result, having to stop an awakened mummy named Imhotep.
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| - The Mummy trilogy is a trilogy of movies that features mummies. (1999, 2001, 2008) There is also an animated series (2001-2003). The first movie was a loose remake of the original film. Instead of being straight horror, it was more of an action-adventure with a dash of comedy. It featured actors Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah. They played Rick O'Connell, Evelyn Carnahan, and Jonathan Carnahan, respectively and their quest was to find ancient artifacts and treasure. They end up, as a result, having to stop an awakened mummy named Imhotep. Ultimately the movies owe more to Indiana Jones than anything else, however they are very Genre Savvy and just runs with it, making for effective light entertainment. The sequel, The Mummy Returns, featured Jonathan Carnahan, the now-married Rick and Evelyn and their inquisitive son Alex. Imhotep returns, tries to steal a magical army from the Scorpion King, who was portrayed by Dwayne Johnson, give or take some Special Effects Failures. During the long wait for a third, we got a Spin-Off/ Prequel known as The Scorpion King. It had The Rock fight Egyptians and sorcerers and stuff like that. The Scorpion King itself got a direct-to-DVD-pre-prequel, The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior. The third movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, was not as well received. Stephen Sommers neither wrote nor directed it. It had Rachel Weisz replaced with Maria Bello. Imhotep was gone in favor of a new villain played by Jet Li. And there are yetis. Who kick field goals. On the other hand, it had a scene where the villain tears his own face off and throws it at someone. And King Ghidorah. Most recently, The Scorpion King got a second sequel that is due to be released in early 2012 on video. This time, however, it's a sequel to the first Scorpion King film making it a sequel to a prequel(To the original Scorpion King) of the prologue of a sequel (The Mummy Returns). Is your head hurting yet? Not to be confused with the aforementioned 1932 film featuring Boris Karloff as Imhotep, or the 1959 Hammer Horror film featuring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, or the 1969 Egyptian art film more usually called The Night of Counting the Years (which Martin Scorsese once mentioned really liking).
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