These are the free remaking of The Mummy (1932), which starred Boris Karloff as the mummy.

Oddly, A Mummy doesn't require place at a notable Giza pyramids where many Old Kingdom Egyptian pharaohs were buried. Instead, a setting is the fictitious Hamunaptra—the "City of the Dead".

Tagline: A sands may rise. A heavens might a share. A power is unleashed.

Plot

Therein version, a mummy occurs as faithless High Priest known as Imhotep (Vosloo) who has an affair by using pharaoh Seti's mistress, Anck-su-namun (named when a historical queen Ankhesenamun). It put to death a pharaoh of egypt while he discovers this, however Imhotep is buried alive by owning flesh-zoophagous scarab beetles, under a awful curse[the Hum Dai] that would unleash pure evil in case he were freed. Centuries afterwards, inside 1926, bibliothec & wishful archeologist Evelyn (Weisz) & her handless brother Jonathan call for the captive, Richard "Rick" O'Connell (Fraser), world health organization happens to underst& a location of wasted treasure and Hamunaptra--the "City of the Dead". It journey using the decision, however the expedition becomes the race against a class action of objectionable Americans, world health organization come existence led by Beni, an old associate of O'Connell's world health organization too knows training call for Hamunaptra. It is too attacked by members of the secret society devoted to making sure a wasted city remains misused. All a same, it produce it to the city, in which everyone turn up old artefact that should develop been left buried & the choice is flushed by flesh-zoophagous scarabaeus. Imhotep is inadvertently freed, & begins killing a Americans, utilizing their life-click to complete his resurrection; Beni lives by pledging allegiance to Imhotep. Imhotep at length will bring a Ten Plagues of Moses, and captures Evelyn, intending to utilise her to resurrect his long-dead lover. Rick & Jonathan, by using a reluctant assistance of Beni, rescue Evelyn & thwart Imhotep. When it is allowing Hamunaptrthe, Beni lessens behind to plunder a treasures of the wasted city, & is trapped by using a swarm of flesh-zoophagous scarabaeus sacer. A heroes ride off into a sunset in camels, as yet unawcome that their saddlebags are packed by having treasures Beni looted earliest...

Spinoffs
A sequel, The Mummy Returns, was released around 2001. The Scorpion King, the spin-byproduct featuring a character from either A Mummy Is restored, was freed within 2002. Though non officially proclaimed, these are believed that the third Mummy moving-picture show is presently planned, when Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, & Stephen Sommers keep close at hand totally hinted at it. [http://www.aint-it-cool.com/display.cgi?id=20076] There exists besides A spin-byproduct television series, The Mummy: The Animated Series (2001), broadcast on The WB network within a United States & BBC1 and the CBBC channel in Britain. English Computer games developers Rebellion created a spin-byproduct game for Universal Studios Interactive division for the PC, Playstation and Dreamcast. Various platform versions were freed throughout 1999 and 2000.