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Keep Your Eyes Peeled for a ‘Mummy’ 1999 Easter Egg in ‘The Mummy’!
No, Brendan Fraser doesn’t have a cameo. Sorry.
It’s hard to believe that the Brendan Fraser-starring iterations of The Mummy began just about 20 years ago, which makes both them and myself feel like ancient history. Beginning in 1999, Fraser played the heroic Rick O’Connell across three popular and successful films, and this weekend’s The Mummy looks to be drawing a whole lot more inspiration from them than Universal’s original version of The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff as the title character.
But how are The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy (2017) connected, if at all? While they may not exist within the same Dark Universe, an Easter egg in the latter does connect the two films in a fun way!
Inverse got the scoop…
Nick Morton and Jenny Halsey visit the secret London headquarters of Prodigium. The headquarters is full of relics and monster paraphernalia, including a severed hand of a Creature from the Black Lagoon in formaldehyde and a fanged vampire skull. There, Jekyll loses control and turns into Mr. Hyde. As Hyde wails on Nick, Jenny tries to gain entrance into the room to assist him. A Prodigium employee who has seen Jekyll transform before attempts to stop her. The two scuffle, but eventually Jenny grabs a heavy book and knocks him on the head.
There’s a brief, brief shot of the book — and it’s familiar. It’s the Book of the Dead from the ‘99 Mummy, complete with a star-shaped lock.
In the 1999 version of The Mummy, the Book of the Dead was an Ancient Egyptian book made of pure obsidian. It contained ancient spells and incantations that could resurrect the dead and summon the Ghost Warriors.
Keep your eyes peeled when you see The Mummy this weekend!
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R-Rated ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe’ Director’s Cut Gets New Title and Streaming Premiere Date
After a slight delay, Disney has finally announced a new streaming date for the R-Rated director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. According to Gizmodo, it’ll also come with a new title.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn begins streaming on Hulu on August 14.
The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he teased a much scarier movie he intended.
“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained last year. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“
The director’s cut of the film was initially set to arrive on Disney+ in June, but quietly disappeared from the schedule without a word. Polygon reported the delay was “due to some last-minute adjustments being made to the film.”
The release’s new “Vrach Frankenshteyn” title certainly suggests those adjustments have been made, likely referring to a Frankensteining of bonus footage.
In the film, Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) have been out of the FBI for several years, with Mulder living in isolation and Scully having become a doctor at a Catholic hospital, where she has formed a bond with a critically ill child patient.
When an FBI agent is mysteriously kidnapped, and a former Catholic priest who has been convicted of pedophilia claims to be experiencing psychic visions of the endangered agent, Scully is asked to bring Mulder back to the bureau to consult on the case because of his work with psychics.
The brand new R-rated cut will “faithfully restore the filmmaker’s original vision.”
Look for it on Hulu next month.
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