Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007)

Director:

Keith Melton

Writer:

Arabella Cecil (writer)

Release Date:

25 May 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography | Drama | Family | History

Plot:

The grail is not the gold, nor the books of ancient wisdom, but the 3,000 year old DNA of the mummies, which may lead to a cure for malaria. |

Plot Keywords:

Mummy | Pharaoh | DNA | Gold | Egypt

Awards:

1 nomination

US Showtimes:

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Cast

Elana Drago	...	Nefertari
William Hope	...	Charles Wilbour
Nasser Memarzia	...	Ahmed Abd El Rassoul
Crispin Redman	...	Emil Brugsch
Daud Shah	...	Mohammed Abd El Rassoul
Boris Terral	...	Rameses
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bob Brier	...	Himself
Brahim Choukri	...	Brugsch's Batman
Angelique Corthals	...	Herself
Zahi Hawass	...	Himself
Mohammed Kacha	...	Anubis Priest
Abdellah Kloul	...	Khaemwaset
Erragragui Lakbir	...	Scribe
Christopher Lee	...	Narrator
Driss Ouabi	...	European husband
Laafou Ouadii	...	Travelling Priest
Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni	...	Paser
Nasser Ouji	...	Heqa Nakht
Patricia Remler	...	European Lady
Fdila Tabounout	...	Omm Rassoul

Directed by
Keith Melton

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Arabella Cecil		writer

Produced by
Arabella Cecil	....	producer
Myles Connolly	....	line producer
Greg Eliason	....	line producer
Don Kempf	....	producer
Steve Kempf	....	producer

Original Music by
Sam Cardon

Cinematography by
Reed Smoot

Film Editing by
Harry B. Miller III

Casting by
Jeremy Zimmerman

Art Direction by
Stephen Dobric
Mahmoud Habashy
John Zachary

Set Decoration by
Jessica Anderson

Costume Design by
Lindsay Pugh

Makeup Department
Khadija Hamdan	....	key makeup artist: Morocco
Maria Jittou	....	makeup artist: Morocco
Anny Kim	....	key makeup artist: LA
Caroline Martini	....	key makeup artist
Kerin Parfitt	....	makeup designer

Production Management
Hala Galal	....	unit manager: Egypt
Rick Gordon	....	post-production supervisor
Hamid Herraf	....	unit manager: Morocco
James Manke	....	post-production manager
Mohammed Mostafa	....	production manager: Egypt

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tarek Hassan Abdel Hamid	....	third assistant director
Alexandra Bouillon	....	third assistant director
Simon Downes	....	second assistant director
Mick Ward	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Mohammed Aabbi	....	prop labor: Morocco
Casey Cannon	....	lead set dresser
Abdelfattah El Attaoui	....	prop buyer: Morocco
Abdelaziz El Hlimi	....	prop labor: Morocco
Kevin Farrell	....	storyboard artist
Simon Wakefield	....	property master

Sound Department
Ahmed Adnan	....	sound mixer: Egypt
Meredith Campbell	....	contractor
Patrick Flynn	....	adr mixer
Nick Foley	....	adr recordist
Ted Hinckley	....	contractor
Michael L. McDonough	....	sound designer
Taoufik Mekraz	....	sound mixer: Morocco
George Meyer	....	adr mixer
Steve Morris	....	sound engineer
Ryan Purcell	....	foley artist
Gary Rizzo	....	sound re-recording mixer
Karl Rosengren	....	assistant sound editor
Tony Sereno	....	sound mix technician
Ted Swanscott	....	adr mixer

Visual Effects by
Rodrigo Armendariz	....	compositor: stereoscopic conversion
Johnathan R. Banta	....	compositor (stereoscopic conversion)
Manuela Schmidt de Souza	....	visual effects artist
Colin Feist	....	compositing supervisor: stereoscopic conversion
Derry Frost	....	head of production
Paul Haman	....	visual effects (stereoscopic conversion)
Mark A. Lasoff	....	compositor
Michael F. Le	....	rotoscope artist
Shira Mandel	....	rotoscope artist (stereoscopic conversion)
Roger Mocenigo	....	digital compositor: Amalgamated Pixels
Michael Morreale	....	visual effects supervisor
Jeremy Nicolaides	....	stereoscopic supervisor: Sassoon Film Design
Jeremy Oddo	....	senior animator
Phillip Palousek	....	manager
Brandon Perlow	....	modeling and animation
John Pierce	....	digital compositor: stereoscopic conversion
John Pierce	....	rotoscope supervisor
Davina Sanchez	....	digital artist
Lauren van Houten	....	animator

Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Adams	....	key grip
Allen Dial	....	best boy electric
Marc Ehrenbold	....	camera operator
Lahcen Herraf	....	key grip
Dennis L. Peterson	....	gaffer
Dominic Seal	....	gaffer
Seth Smoot	....	still photographer
Alan E. Stoddard	....	electrician

Casting Department
Jordan Bass	....	casting associate
Lauren Bass	....	casting: Los Angeles
Brahim Choukri	....	extras casting director: Morocco
Laurence Gormezano	....	casting assistant: Paris
Elodie Houndonougbo	....	casting assistant: Paris
Miloud Jghou	....	extras casting: Morocco

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Monia Fath Elbab	....	costume assistant: Egypt

Editorial Department
Raymond Akopyan	....	editorial supervisor
Wade Bartlett	....	editorial supervisor
Kent Hayward	....	assistant editor
Miya Lau	....	post-production coordinator

Music Department
Kurt Bestor	....	conductor
Sam Cardon	....	music producer
Dan Carlisle	....	music recording engineer
Yoni Gileadi	....	electronic music programming
Ted Hinckley	....	score supervisor
Scott Johnson	....	music editor
Scott Johnson	....	music recording engineer
Scott Johnson	....	music editor
Mike Roskelley	....	music mixer

Transportation Department
Ashraf Abd El Same'a	....	transportation captain: Egypt
Mohammed Arakaci	....	driver: Morocco
Chakir Assouri	....	driver: Morocco
Mohammed Ait Benali	....	driver: Morocco
Houcine Boulkhdadi	....	driver: Morocco
Mohammed El Idrysy	....	driver: Morocco
Abdellah Faouzi	....	driver: Morocco
Hassan Laaroui	....	driver: Morocco
Hassan Taer	....	driver: Morocco

Other crew
Amr Abdo	....	production assistant: Egypt
Azzam Adli	....	location assistant: Egypt
Said Amidrakh	....	swing gang: Morocco
Arthur Aufderheide	....	consultant scholar
Ehab Bahgat	....	location manager: Egypt
Professor John Baines	....	consultant scholar: Oriental Institute, Oxford
Dr. Henk Beentje	....	consultant scholar: Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Hamed Ait Ben Ali	....	warden: Morocco
Mohammed Chafki	....	warden: Morocco
Rosalie David	....	consultant scholar (as Professor Rosalie David)
Rabii El Bakki	....	location manager: Morocco
Ed Escalante	....	quality control manager
Professor Richard Evershed	....	consultant scholar
Younes Falah	....	swing gang: Morocco
Mohammed Gaber	....	production assistant: Egypt
Victoria Goodall	....	production consultant
Yasmine Hadhoumi	....	production coordinator: Morocco
Mohammed Hamdy	....	location assistant: Egypt
Ayman Hussein	....	production coordinator: Egypt
Mbared Iken	....	warden: Morocco
Salima Ikram	....	consultant scholar
Brahim Kabbou	....	warden: Morocco
Ali Kamadou	....	warden: Morocco
Mecheal Makram	....	production secretary: Egypt
Mohammed Mezouari	....	swing gang: Morocco
Dan Muscarella	....	hazeltine timer
Ahmed Omar	....	script supervisor
Dr. Ana Luz Porzecanski	....	consultant scholar
Abdelatif Regragui	....	assistant location manager: Morocco
Howard Reid	....	consultant scholar
Johan Reinhard	....	consultant scholar
Patricia Remler	....	consultant scholar
Brian Rogers	....	production consultant
Abderrahmane Sabili	....	warden: Morocco
Daniel Salas-Porras	....	production supervisor
Ahmed Sami	....	production consultant
Peter Spry-Leverton	....	consultant scholar
Peter Spry-Leverton	....	production consultant
Scott Swofford	....	production consultant
Dr. Phat Tran	....	consultant scholar
Byron Turk	....	production assistant: Los Angeles
Adrianna von Hagen	....	consultant scholar
Ronald S. Wade	....	consultant scholar: Maryland State Anatomy Board
Spencer Wells	....	consultant scholar
Dr. Helen Whitehouse	....	consultant scholar: Ashmolean Museum

Thanks
Nashwa Andel-Kader	....	special thanks
Vikram Jayanti	....	special thanks
John Lloyd	....	special thanks
Chah Mahfouz	....	special thanks
Agnieszka Moody	....	special thanks
Isabelle Nobio	....	special thanks
Andrew Oran	....	special thanks
Sir Derek Plumbly	....	special thanks
Serena Prest	....	special thanks
Neris Thomas	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Giant Screen Films
• Gravity Pictures

Distributors

• Giant Screen Films (2007) (worldwide) (all media)

Special Effects

• Amalgamated Pixels

Also Known As:

Mummies 3-D: Secrets of the Pharaohs (USA) (reissue title)
Mumien 3-D - Geheimnisse der Pharaonen (Germany) [de]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.44 : 1

Sound Mix:

Sonics-DDP

Filming Locations:

Abu Simbel, Egypt

Company:

Giant Screen Films

This didn't need to be an IMAX movie.

This feels like a history channel special. There were a few neat IMAX camera shots but not really enough to take advantage of the overly large screen.

There's some basic information about who the mummies most likely were, a view in on an experiment where some scientists make a modern mummy in order to try and figure out where to withdraw DNA from old mummies and some stuff on tomb robbers.

That's basically it. I'd advise seeing it if you're obsessed with mummies but otherwise there isn't too much you can get out of this movie.