I awoke, and have included text beneath each of the below images to help explain their existance!!!! The photographic images came from a trailer that will be hitting with Universal's VIRUS and the other images come from our spy known as 'The Director'. Who he is is best kept hush hush and on the QT...
Above is my favorite shot of the trailer. Why? Because here is a shot that hasn't seen a silver screen since MARCH OR DIE, it's a classic desert charge in the tradition of CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. For me, the Golden Age of Hollywood was famous for shoots like this... Will they resurrect the famous Yakima Canutt's "RUNNING W" which has been outlawed because of the damage it caused to horses. It would be possible with modern digital effects, and would shock the hell out of an audience that is completely unfamiliar with Canutt's brilliant stunt!!!
This is a SOLDIER Mummy. You'll see over the course of this film several types of mummies. Slow ones all the way up to fantastically dynamic mummies that'll rip ya to pieces. This ain't your father's or Grandfather's or Great-Grandfather's Mummy movie!
Sand is but an instrument to Imhotep! He will whup your ass. As for the, "Does he speak with a British accent?" Well, for this movie, he speaks only in an early dialect of Egyptian and a bit of 'the slave's tongue' as he calls it, we know it as Hebrew.
From what I saw on set, the costuming and the make up effects are unlike anything I've seen in film. The key for me will be the score, the film is gorgeous, very rich in texture, but the atmosphere will be added by the score. I WISH THEY'D USE JAMES BERNARD!!!
Books with covers like that should not be opened. And when you know it's titled, THE BOOK OF THE DEAD... well, clue one mister, you ain't dead yet, it ain't for your eyes!!!
Thus our adventure begins with this little charm.
In the script when I read about this shot of the sandstorm taking on the features of IMHOTEP... I cringed. I knew it'd look bad... But look! ILM did it, can you imagine the sandstorm in that other film?
Do you like your Priest Mummies medium rare or well done?
If there is one thing we genre fans know, it's not to cross, touch or tamper with seals half covered with sand!
Well, you could have your Priest Mummies... rare..
They're gonna need a faster plane dontcha think?
Old papyrus maps, folded in little treasure boxes are not meant to be followed. They should be framed on a wall and stared at... nothing more I tell ya!
These scarab beetles are some mean muthers, I'll tell ya that. You'll see. They're cute like them bugs in A BUG'S LIFE... you'll see...
Camels, golden hued skys, wistful breezes of desert sand... must be an epic, eh?
As one of you in TALK BACK suggested, "who is this evil Barbarella?" Well, she's a chick you shouldn't marry, I'll just put it like that. Okay?
Aren't these images of Imhotep just badass or what?
Imhotep is the man MAN!!! He's noble and tragic. He's not a one note character, and the actor playing him (Arnold Vosloo) is not playing him as a bad guy, but as a man fulfilling a destiny and a life he has wanted since birth.
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