The Mummy Returns and Scorpion King question

Sluis Van Shipyards

Sluis Van Shipyards

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I watched the last half of The Mummy Returns last night and at the end they have the Scorpion King fighting the other mummy dude and the hero (see how well I paid attention to the names? :lol). Anyway throughout that movie they build up the Scorpion King as a real bad guy, yet in the actual Scorpion King movie, he's a good guy. Is there some reason for the big difference between the two movies? My guess would be The Rock didn't want to play a bad guy.
 
Sluis Van Shipyards said:
I watched the last half of The Mummy Returns last night and at the end they have the Scorpion King fighting the other mummy dude and the hero (see how well I paid attention to the names? :lol). Anyway throughout that movie they build up the Scorpion King as a real bad guy, yet in the actual Scorpion King movie, he's a good guy. Is there some reason for the big difference between the two movies? My guess would be The Rock didn't want to play a bad guy.
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Simple: If you're going to do a movie about The Scorpion King with him in focus, you want people to like him. Besides, it hints that sometime after the events of The Scorpion King, something clearly corrupted him, thus leading him to be the villain in The Mummy Returns.
 
Dear lord, I've rarely seen worse movies than the Scorpion King sequels... even without a long rant, cheesy plots, terrible historical/Mummy universe coherency, and goodness, the bad acting.

*Cough* mini-rant over.
 
Nibenon said:
Dear lord, I've rarely seen worse movies than the Scorpion King sequels... even without a long rant, cheesy plots, terrible historical/Mummy universe coherency, and goodness, the bad acting.

*Cough* mini-rant over.
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:lol I'll counter with Kelly Hu was in it...
 
I guess this is along the same lines as Arnold's character in the original Terminator and T2- bad guy in the first, good guy (because of the popularity of the character) in the sequel.

But... I can't see the Scorpion King in the "The Mummy Returns" generating the same popularity as Arnie in The Terminator, so that throws my theory out the window. :lol


Kevin
 
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