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After Mick Garris and Wes Craven said no, Stephen Sommers then brought in Jacks and Daniel. His vision for The Mummy was “as a kind of Indiana Jones or Jason and the Argonauts with the mummy as the creature giving the hero a hard time”. After seeing the film when he was a kid, Sommers wanted to recreate the film on a bigger scale. With just 18 pages, he pitched the idea to Universal – who were under new management and Babe: Pig in the City had just tanked in the box office. Universal loved the idea so much that they didn’t just approve the project, the took the budget from $15 million to $80 million. Nice!
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