The Mummy

The UNIVERSAL PICTURES globe spins. Then comes to a stop on the African

continent. A golden papyrus MAP of ANCIENT EGYPT rises up. WE PUSH IN on

it, towards a CITY along the Nile, it's name written in hierarchic. WE KEEP

PUSHING IN until the golden map turns to golden sand and we find ourselves

DESCENDING on this ancient Egyptian city. Only it's not ancient.

SUPERIMPOSED across the SCREEN are the WORDS.

TREBES - 2,134 B.C

Accompanied by a NARRATOR with a very thick Egyptian accent:

NARRATOR:

Thebes. City of the Living. Crown

jewel of Pharaoh Seti the First.

The CAMERA sets-down in an open plaza. An Arabian horse-drawn CHARIOT comes

barreling right at us, driven by PHARAOH SETI; an aristocratic, virile old

man. The chariot WIPES FRAME.

INT. ANCK-SU-NAMUN'S BALCONY WINDOW - PALACE - DUSK

Glaring out over the city at the setting sun is a handsome, muscular MAN

with intense, evil eyes. This is IMHOTEP.

NARRATOR:

Home of Imhotep, High Priest of

Osiris, Keeper of the Dead.

A gorgeous, olive-skinned goddess enters the outer foyer. It takes us a

moment to realize that the skin-tight dress she's wearing isn't a dress at

all, but rather her entire naked body has been PAINTED in the ancient

Egyptian manner She's a stunning sight to behold. This is ANCK-SU-NAMUN.

NARRATOR:

Birthplace of Anck-su-namun.

Pharaoh's Mistress. No other man was allowed

to touch her.

She makes her way through the ornate statuary. The CAMERA comes to a stop

on a CRACKED STONE FACE. A BEAT. And then it's eyes suddenly POP OPEN. It's

really a strange looking TATTOOED MAN. Several more of these hideous, bald

MEN stand nearby. They are the PRIESTS of Osiris. Imhotep's guys. Their

eyes watch Anck-su-namun vanish through the bedroom curtains. Anck-su-namun

embraces Imhotep, they kiss passionately, feverishly. Imhotep's hands roam

over her perfect body, smearing the paint. The Narrator's VOICE fills with

lust:

NARRATOR:

But for our love, we were willing to

risk life itself.

And we realize that the Narrator is actually Imhotep himself

on the other-side of the curtains, the bald Priests rush over and close the

doors. But just as they do, the doors suddenly BURST OPEN. Pharaoh angrily

strides in, looks at the Priests. The following DIALOGUE is in ANCIENT

EGYPTIAN, --SUBTITLED.)

PHARAOH:

What are you doing here?

The Priests back away, scared shitless, obviously his arrival was

unexpected. Pharaoh strides for the curtains. Throws them back.

Anck-su-namun stands alone. Gives him a sexy smile. Pharaoh sees the

smeared body paint. Points his finger.

PHARAOH:

WHO HAS TOUCHED YOU?!

From behind him, his sword is ripped out of its scabbard. Pharaoh spins

around. It's Imhotep. Pharaoh is shocked.

PHARAOH:

Imhotep? .... My priest.

Behind him, Anck-su-namun lifts a dagger and plunges it into his back.

Pharaoh SCREAMS. Imhotep raises Pharaoh's sword. The hideous bald Priests

SLAM the doors and bolt them tight. Through the curtains, they see the

SHADOWS of Anck-su-namun and Imhotep stab away at Pharaoh. Suddenly, the

doors are RAMMED from the other side, --WHAM! Imhotep and Anck-su-namun

turn and look. --WHAM! The doors are RAMMED again. The two lovers share

desperate looks. --WHAM! The bald Priests run up and grab Imhotep and try

and pull him towards the balcony.

PRIESTS:

Pharaoh's bodyguards!

Imhotep tries to break free, but Anck-su-namun rips Pharaoh's sword out of

his hand and pushes him towards the balcony.

ANCK-SU-NAMM

You must go. Save yourself.

Only you can resurrect me.

Imhotep's face fills with despair. The DOORS EXPLODE OPEN. MEN with

BLUE-TINTED SKIN and strange PUZZLE-TATTOOS over their bodies stride in,

armed to the teeth. These are the MUMIA. The Priests hustle Imhotep out

onto the dark balcony just as the Mumia rip through the curtains.

Anck-su-namun points at Pharaoh and hisses--

ANCK-SU-NAMUN

My body is no longer his temple!

She PLUNGES the sword into her own heart. out on the balcony, Imhotep's

mouth opens into a horrible silent scream .........

NARRATOR/IMHOTEP

For murdering Pharaoh, Anck-su-namun's body

was to be cursed. And it was I, the High

Priest, whose duty it was to curse it.

EXT. SAND DUNES - NIGHT

Imhotep leads-a TORCH-LIT procession across the dunes. Anck-su-namun's

mummy is carried by NUBIAN SLAVES. They pet her down in the sand along with

FIVE JEWEL ENCRUSTED JARS.

IMHOTEP:

Her body was mummified, her vital

organs removed and placed in sacred canopic

jars

Imhotep, filled with dread, reads from a OBOOKO made out of pure GOLD. THIS

IS THE BOOK OF THE LIVING.

IMHOTEP:

The Book of The Living contained

sacred incantations that would send the evil

dead on a journey into the dark underworld.

Strange LIGHT suddenly FLASHES across Anck-su-namun's body and across the

faces of the slaves and the EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS Suddenly, everyone's

fear-filled eyes all rise, as if watching Anck-su-namun's body rising. Then

one last HUGE FLASH, accompanied by a BLAST OF WIND, and it's over.

Anck-su-namun's body now lies twisted on the ground.

Imhotep's Priests place the body into a stone sarcophagus. The Nubian

slaves lower it into a hole and bury it with sand Imhotep then signals to

the Soldiers, who throw their spears at the Nubians. Killing them.

INHOTEP:

The slaves were killed....

Imhotep's knife-wielding Priests attack the now unarmed Soldiers, hacking

at them in the flickering darkness as Imhotep and the Mumia solemnly

watches.

IMHOTEP:

.... and the soldiers who killed them

were also slain, so that no unholy person

should ever know the exact location of the

burial site.

The Mumia walk off across the sand and then, one by one,

the Priests stop their frenzied stabbing and stare off at the

vanishing Mumia. As the last Mumia disappears over a distant

dune, Imhotep nods, and the Priests leap onto Anck-su-namun's

grave and begin digging it back up with their hands.

EXT. SAHARA DESERT - NIGHT

CHARIOTS race out into the moonlit desert. Imhotep leads the way. A

"hearse" carries Anck-su-namun's mummy. THE MAP OF ANCIENT EGYPT FADES UP.

The chariots race across the map.

IMHOTEP:

But there was another book, The Book

Of The Dead, which was never to-be opened,

never to be read, for it contained the

incantations that could bring a dead body

back to life a most unholy thing.

The chariots arrive at a place marked on the map in hieratic. They race up

the stone ramp and in through the city gates. SUPERIMPOSED across the

SCREEN are the WORDS:

KANUNAPTM - City of the Dead

IMHOTEP:

It was hidden at Hamunaptra, City of

the Dead, inside the statue of Anubis, so

that no such sacrilege might ever disgrace

Egypt.

EXT. HAMUNAPTRA - ANUBIS SITE - NIGHT

Imhotep pulls an ORNATE CHEST out of a SECRET COMPARTMENT inside the giant

STATUE OF ANUBIS. He opens the chest and lifts out THE BOOK OF THE DEAD,

made of black stone.

IMHOTEP:

But for my love of Anck-su-namun I

was willing to defy the gods.

INT- UNDERGROUND NECROPOLIS - NIGHT

Big hairy RATS scurry through the mausoleums and over the headstones of

this very large, scary, UNDERGROUND CEMETERY. A DETRITUS MOAT surrounds the

cemetery, --muck made out of filthy water and human remains. Skulls bob in

the goop. The Priests have gathered in a circle. Their hooded, lifeless

eyes seem dead to this world. Their bald heads rock back and forth as they

CHANT, a quiet eerie HUM. Heinous creatures. In the middle of the circle is

a strange, twisted ALTAR.' Imhotep has unwrapped Anck-su-namun's gorgeous,

lifeless body and placed her five sacred canopic jars around her.

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