FROM THE PUBLISHER

Includes details of incredible special effects, artwork, interviews with cast, crew, designers, and directors. Also includes chapters on the original film and the Truth Behind the Story (written with the film's Egyptologist ).

Set to be one of the biggest films of 1999. A full-scale re-imagining of Universal Pictures' seminal 1932 film, The Mummy is a rousing, humorous, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925.

Industrial Light & Magic is producing the ground-breaking visual effects necessary to bring the awe-inspiring and terrifying world of The Mummy to life on the screen.
The Mummy first takes us back to ancient Egypt where the High Priest Imhotep is embalmed alive for his illicit affair with the Pharoh's mistress, Ancksunamun. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, which is embodied in the vengeful reincarnation of the Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead. Healing the millenium of decay by "borrowing" body parts from his victims and releasing a series of spectacular biblical-style "plagues" on the town, the rejuvenated mummy terrorizes the beautiful Evelyn Carnarvon, who he believes to be a reincarnation of Anacksunman.

An Alphaville production, The Mummy stars Brenden Fraser (George of The Jungle), RachelL Weisz (Swept From The Sea) and John Hannah (Sliding Doors). The film was written and directed by Stephen Sommers (Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, The Adventures of Huck Finn) and produced by James Jacks and Sean Daniel (Tombstone, Michael, Dazed & Confused).