The Mummy - The Mummy is a 1999 film written and directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, with Arnold Vosloo as the reanimated mummy of the title. The movie features some dialogue in ancient Egyptian language with the assistance of a professional Egyptologist. It is a loose remake of The Mummy (1932), which starred Boris Karloff as the mummy. The Mummy does not take place at the famed Giza pyramids where several Old Kingdom Egyptian kings (Egyptian monarchs were not yet called pharaohs) were buried. Instead most of the action takes place in the fictitious Hamunaptra — the 'City of the Dead' that lies 'deep into the desert' beyond Thebes that has buried treasure that the characters soon come to find. It was followed in 2001 by a sequel, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: The Animated Series, followed by The Scorpion King in 2002.