Hey there, listeners. What you're about to hear is a clip from our latest installment of the rental,

which is, you know, we cover other movies that aren't in our regular coverage.

This month we are covering 1999's The Mummy as part of our Universal Monsters coverage,

because we're going to be covering the original Mummy.

Well, we covered The Mummy from 1999, and you're going to be hearing a clip from that here.

If you want to hear the full thing, you can get it over at patreon.com slash Halloween's pod.

And we also did a watch-along of 2017's The Mummy.

So a lot of Mummy coverage on our Patreon.

And boy, golly, you can get it all again by joining us over at patreon.com slash Halloween's pod. I hope to see you there for one good scare.

So here we're going to talk a little bit about the production history, which was fascinating. I love doing these

episodes because I learned so much about this, and it's so cool. So I found a really great

archived scan, basically, of a Cinefantastique magazine from 1999, where they go pretty hard on

all sorts of mummy-related content,

and they kind of went back through the production history and the long road to actually

getting this movie made.

So, story for this movie starts way back in 1987 when, according to the magazine, it says,

according to the records of the WGA, the first evidence of the remake was logged in 1987 with a treatment from distinguished horror filmmaker, George Romero, not George Romeo, which I apparently typed here in the script, but George Romero.

Hope it really was it, George Romeo.

Oh, could have been Romero. It's like, oh, my God. There's Romeo. Hi, the script. But George Romero. If it really was it, George Romeo, and we're like going crazy.

Oh, it could have been Romero.

It's like, oh, my God.

There's Romeo.

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