Tino's adventures of the Mummy

Introduction to the Mummy\A Story of Forbidden Love and Payback revenge.

The UNIVERSAL PICTURES globe spins. Then comes to a stop on the Africancontinent. A golden papyrus MAP of ANCIENT EGYPT rises up. WE PUSH IN onit, towards a CITY along the Nile, it's name written in hierarchic. WE KEEPPUSHING IN until the golden map turns to golden sand and we find ourselvesDESCENDING on this ancient Egyptian city. Only it's not ancient.SUPERIMPOSED across the SCREEN are the WORDS. TREBES - 2,134 B.CAccompanied 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 comesbarreling right at us, driven by PHARAOH SETI; an aristocratic, virile oldman. The chariot WIPES FRAME.INT. ANCK-SU-NAMUN'S BALCONY WINDOW - PALACE - DUSKGlaring out over the city at the setting sun is a handsome, muscular MANwith 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 amoment to realize that the skin-tight dress she's wearing isn't a dress atall, but rather her entire naked body has been PAINTED in the ancientEgyptian 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 stopon a CRACKED STONE FACE. A BEAT. And then it's eyes suddenly POP OPEN. It'sreally a strange looking TATTOOED MAN. Several more of these hideous, baldMEN stand nearby. They are the PRIESTS of Osiris. Imhotep's guys. Theireyes watch Anck-su-namun vanish through the bedroom curtains. Anck-su-namunembraces Imhotep, they kiss passionately, feverishly. Imhotep's hands roamover her perfect body, smearing the paint. The Narrator's VOICE fills withlust: NARRATOR But for our love, we were willing to risk life itself.And we realize that the Narrator is actually Imhotep himselfon the other-side of the curtains, the bald Priests rush over and close thedoors. But just as they do, the doors suddenly BURST OPEN. Pharaoh angrilystrides in, looks at the Priests. The following DIALOGUE is in ANCIENTEGYPTIAN, --SUBTITLED.) PHARAOH What are you doing here?The Priests back away, scared shitless, obviously his arrival wasunexpected. Pharaoh strides for the curtains. Throws them back.Anck-su-namun stands alone. Gives him a sexy smile. Pharaoh sees thesmeared body paint. Points his finger. PHARAOH WHO HAS TOUCHED YOU?!From behind him, his sword is ripped out of its scabbard. Pharaoh spinsaround. 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 PriestsSLAM the doors and bolt them tight. Through the curtains, they see theSHADOWS of Anck-su-namun and Imhotep stab away at Pharaoh. Suddenly, thedoors are RAMMED from the other side, --WHAM! Imhotep and Anck-su-namunturn and look. --WHAM! The doors are RAMMED again. The two lovers sharedesperate looks. --WHAM! The bald Priests run up and grab Imhotep and tryand pull him towards the balcony. PRIESTS Pharaoh's bodyguards!Imhotep tries to break free, but Anck-su-namun rips Pharaoh's sword out ofhis hand and pushes him towards the balcony. ANCK-SU-NAMM You must go. Save yourself. Only you can resurrect mImhotep's face fills with despair. The DOORS EXPLODE OPEN. MEN withBLUE-TINTED SKIN and strange PUZZLE-TATTOOS over their bodies stride in,armed to the teeth. These are the MUMIA. The Priests hustle Imhotep outonto 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'smouth 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 - NIGHTImhotep leads-a TORCH-LIT procession across the dunes. Anck-su-namun'smummy is carried by NUBIAN SLAVES. They pet her down in the sand along withFIVE JEWEL ENCRUSTED JARS. IMHOTEP Her body was mummified, her vital organs removed and placed in sacred canopic jarsImhotep, filled with dread, reads from a OBOOKO made out of pure GOLD. THISIS 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 thefaces of the slaves and the EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS Suddenly, everyone'sfear-filled eyes all rise, as if watching Anck-su-namun's body rising. Thenone 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 Nubianslaves lower it into a hole and bury it with sand Imhotep then signals tothe Soldiers, who throw their spears at the Nubians. Killing them. INHOTEP The slaves were killed....e.
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 thevanishing Mumia. As the last Mumia disappears over a distantdune, Imhotep nods, and the Priests leap onto Anck-su-namun'sgrave and begin digging it back up with their hands.EXT. SAHARA DESERT - NIGHTCHARIOTS 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: My Friends this case may be the chance for surviving of the fittest.