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The Mummy (1999 film)

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The result was: not scheduled by Brianboulton (talk) 09:58, 9 March 2015 (UTC)



The Mummy is a 1999 American fantasy adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Kevin J. O'Connor, with Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. It is a loose remake of the 1932 film of the same name which starred Boris Karloff in the title role. Originally intended to be part of a low budget horror series, the film eventually grew into a blockbuster adventure film. The film opened on May 7, 1999, and grossed $43 million in 3,210 theaters during its opening weekend in the United States; the film went on to gross $416 million worldwide. The box-office success led to a 2001 sequel, The Mummy Returns, as well as The Mummy: The Animated Series, and the spin-off film The Scorpion King. Seven years later, the third installment, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, opened on August 1, 2008. Universal Pictures also opened a roller coaster, Revenge of the Mummy, in 2004. Novelizations of the film and its sequels were written by Max Allan Collins.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Kahaani (9 March)
 * Main editors: David Fuchs
 * Promoted: April 12, 2008
 * Reasons for nomination: Article is interesting reading. FA status. --BabbaQ (talk) 17:33, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator. BabbaQ (talk) 17:33, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose: This may have passed muster as a FA in 2008, but it's well off the pace now. The plot summary is bloated, and poorly written in a confusion of past and present tenses. The "Principal photography" section is full of detail of no relevance to photography, e.g. "Brendan Fraser nearly died during a scene where his character is hanged. Weisz remembered, "He [Fraser] stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated." The production had the official support of the Moroccan army, and the cast members had kidnapping insurance taken out on them,  a fact Sommers disclosed to the cast only after shooting had finished". There is uncited information in the Adaptations section. And so on...  Until someone is prepared to carry out a very rigorous updating, this is a more likely  candidate for FAR than for TFA. Brianboulton (talk) 15:26, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose for the reasons Brian gives above, and I've pinged David Fuchs as the nominator couldn't be bothered to do so. (In fairness, the current article has very little in common with the version that passed FAC.) BabbaQ, don't take this the wrong way but you might want to slow down; this is your fourth nomination in as many weeks (P. K. van der Byl, Ronnie Lee Gardner, Maggie Gyllenhaal being the others), all with no better rationale than "interesting reading", all without bothering to follow the nomination instructions by notifying the articles' editors, and apparently without checking if the articles are actually FA standard. Enthusiasm is good, but there are often good reasons not to run an article at a particular time, which won't be apparent to people not familiar with the topic—if you insist on refusing to notify the authors of the articles you're starting to slip into WP:POINT territory. – iridescent  17:38, 8 March 2015 (UTC)