11 of the most interesting Mummy easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Mummy movie message.
At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreck havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
Genre
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director
Stephen Sommers
Stars
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo
IMDB score
7.0
Mummy Movie Trivia
The library disaster (where the bookshelves toppled over) was done in one take. If a mistake had been made, it would have taken an entire day to re-shoot.
The snake that Evie kicks away is actually a breed of milk snake, which is not venomous.
Mummy Movie Easter Eggs
One of the characters gets hit in the head with the Book of the Dead from the 1999 The Mummy
While in Prodigum trying to get to Morton, Halsey hits one of Dr. Jekyll's bad guys with a large book on the head. That book is the Golden Book of Amun Ra (the Book of Life), NOT the book of the dead.
Mummy movie hidden details
Imhotep mistakes Evie as his lover, Anck-Su-Namun because he needs glasses. He took Mr. Burns's eyes, and Mr. Burns is basically blind without glasses. You can see Imhotep squinting at Evie and asking her questioningly if she's Anck-Su-Namun.
; When the waters of Egypt turn to blood, the men taking shots of alcohol spit their drinks at the taste of blood. This indicates their drinks were watered down.
O'Connell (Brendan Fraser) bets that he'll beat the Americans in the competing camp to Hamunaptra. He makes this bet because he has camels and they have horses. Camels have a top speed of 40 MPH while horses top out at around 30 MPH. He ends up winning the bet.
Rick O'Connell tells Evelyn their son Alex is becoming more and more like her. In the same scene Alex topples pillars in a domino fashion, mimicking what Evelyn did in The Mummy (1999) with bookshelves.
Dr. Bey makes sure Evie and Jonathan are not paying attention and begins to 'accidentally' light the map on fire so they can't find the city of the dead.
Which was supposed to kickstart a connected universe of Universal monsters, there is a severed arm belonging to the Gill-man, from the classic movie Creature from the Black Lagoon.