As “The Mummy” turns 25, its director Stephen Sommers unwraps the secrets of its success, debunks its wildest rumors, and ponders a return to Egypt.
Filmmaker Stephen Sommers always wanted to make a mummy movie. The problem was, he didn’t know if anyone actually wanted to see it.. “I was in post-production and thought, ‘Oh crap, I’ve made a mummy movie.’ I loved the genre… the action, adventure, romance and horror, and I loved the originalmovies too but for 40 years, they’d made fun of mummies. You can unwrap them, outrun them, use them as Christmas wrapping… I suddenly thought, ‘Oh my God.
The call was enough to secure a meeting with producers Jim Jacks and Sean Daniel where Sommers laid out his vision. “They always tell you to keep your pitches to 15 or 20 minutes; I pitched for an hour and 20 because I had every single thing figured out. For years they were trying to do a literal remake of the Karloff movie. It was going to be low-budget and filmed on sound stages,” says Sommers, revealing that “the previous draft to mine all took place in Los Angeles.
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