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The Mummy

1999 · Film · United States · Directed by Stephen Sommers

Poster of The Mummy
Poster · Wikipedia
Stalls and crowds on Jemaa el-Fna square in Marrakech in the evening light
Filmed here: Marrakech · Photo: Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where in Morocco

  • Marrakech: Wikipedia's filming-location category
  • Ouarzazate: Wikipedia's filming-location category
  • Erfoud: After shooting in Marrakesh, filming moved to the Sahara desert outside the small town of Erfoud. Wikipedia

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The Mummy is a 1999 American action-adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Arnold Vosloo. A loose remake of the 1932 film The Mummy, Sommers' The Mummy follows the adventurer and treasure hunter Rick O'Connell (Fraser) as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with librarian Evelyn Carnahan (Weisz) and her older brother Jonathan (Hannah), where they accidentally awaken Imhotep (Vosloo), a cursed high priest with supernatural powers.

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Sources, checked 2026-11-15
  1. Arabic Wikipedia, filming-location category
  2. Wikipedia: Category:Films shot in Marrakesh
  3. Wikipedia: Category:Films shot in Morocco
  4. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  5. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  6. French Wikipedia, filming-location category
  7. Wikidata, filming location (P915)

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