At the same time, he chose to make the Mummy more nimble, creating a better-matched antagonist for adventurer Rick O’Connell, who was written as an Indiana Jones-like hero. Sommers sold the studio on his version of the script, which he wrote in just six weeks, in part because his take was set in the 1920s. Stephen Sommers won Universal over with his contemporary approach. Though Sommers's vision for The Mummy "was the most expensive version we’d had," according to Jacks, "it was also the biggest movie," making it a true event film.
“When I was 8 years old, I saw the old Boris Karloff one.” “I've always wanted to do a version of The Mummy,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2019. The studio needed a hit, so when chairman Stacey Snider sent out a list of scripts and properties that Universal owned, Deep Rising director Stephen Sommers saw his opportunity. In 1998, Babe : Pig in the City was a notorious bomb for Universal, grossing a not-so-nice $69 million against a budget of $90 million. A pig in the city led to a mummy in the desert. Ultimately, however, it was Sommers's version that won them over. "There were arguments for each of ,” Jacks told the Los Angeles Times in 1999. Finally, in 1996, Universal hired screenwriter/producer Kevin Jarre ( Tombstone) to come up with a fresh take. Both Romero and Garris came back for another round in the mid-1990s. Joe Dante ( Gremlins) envisioned a massive production with Day-Lewis playing the monster John Sayles did a rewrite of one version of the screenplay. Clive Barker ( Hellraiser) wrote a treatment and Mick Garris ( Hocus Pocus) penned a script. At one point, Daniel Day-Lewis was being eyed to play the mummy.Īccording to Cinefantastique, a rotating list of writers, directors, and actors were attached to different iterations of the project over the next several years.
If you got this thing wet it would completely dissolve anything organic, so if you got one drop of this on your body, you would melt like the Wicked Witch of the West.” Bernstein's script was one of several that was developed by the studio, but ultimately never made it into production.
“What I came up with was an idea that a sacred orb had been buried with the Mummy. “ said, ‘What we want is something like The Terminator,’” screenwriter Abbie Bernstein told Cinefantastique in 1999. Romero ( Night of the Living Dead) to write and direct it.
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The first time Universal attempted to update The Mummy was in 1987, when producers James Jacks and Sean Daniel recruited master of horror George A.
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