One of The Mummy 3's
shooting sets in China?was in a desert in Hebei Province,
China. The photos were also unveiled for the first time.
Hollywood blockbuster The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon
Emperor recently began shooting in Shanghai, with 1,200 extras
still to be hired for the film's first action sequence.
A journalist from the Shanghai-based News Times learned
yesterday that the film team will spend 30 days shooting a battle
scene in which the Emperor Qin Shi Huang played by Jet Li will
drive his bronze chariot on a rampage down old Shanghai's Nanjing
Road, while Michelle Yeoh and Hollywood star Brendan Fraser will
fight with Jet Li under a fireworks-decorated sky. This will begin
shooting in early November.
The opening of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
picks up at the end of The Mummy Returns. Rick O'Connell, played by
Brendan Fraser, is bored with his plain life in Britain after he
ended his adventure in Egypt in 1940s. He comes to know about the
myth of China's Emperor Qin Shi Huang and is fascinated with it.
With the help of his good friends, he comes to China and finds the
tomb keepers of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum, Michelle Yeoh
and Anthony Wong. Michelle Yeoh tells Brendan Fraser that there is
a myth passed on from generation to generation that the Emperor Qin
Shi Huang will return from the dead someday.
Persuaded by Brendan Fraser, Yeoh and Wong allow him into the
emperor's mausoleum. Brendan Fraser takes the emperor's coffin to
Shanghai hoping to transport it to Britain for research. Yeoh drops
some magic water on the coffin out of curiosity, and the reanimated
emperor revives his army for a new conquest. Brendan Fraser, Yeoh,
and Wong know that they've made a big mistake, and decide to revive
the people who died constructing the Great Wall to combat the
emperor and his troops.
One of The Mummy 3's
shooting sets in China?was in a desert in Hebei Province,
China. The photos were also unveiled for the first time.
(China.org.cn by Li Xiaohua October 23, 2007)
