Read more about Emperor Han at: Wikipedia Official Site: Universal Pictures The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a 2008 American action-adventure fantasy film, directed by Rob Cohen, written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and produced by Stephen Sommers (director of the first two films), Bob Ducsay, Sean Daniel, and James Jacks. The film is set in China, departing from the Egyptian setting, and focusses on the origins of the Terracotta Army. It is the sequel to The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), and the third and final installment in The Mummy trilogy. The film stars Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford, Anthony Wong and Michelle Yeoh. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor premiered in Moscow on July 24, 2008 and was released in the United States on August 1, 2008. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics and grossed $403 million worldwide, the lowest-grossing film of the trilogy. A sequel was in the works, titled, The Mummy: Rise of the Aztec with Fraser, Hannah, Ford and Bello reprising their roles and Antonio Banderas to play the villain. However, the film was cancelled and Universal Pictures instead opted to release a reboot in 2017 as an attempt to start the Dark Universe franchise. In ancient China, a brutal and tyrannical warlord unites the country's kingdoms into an empire and becomes the Dragon Emperor. He orders the construction of the Great Wall of China to bury and curse his dead enemies, eventually learning power over the traditional Chinese Wu Xing elements of fire, water, earth, wood and metal. The Emperor soon grows fearful that his death will end all he has accomplished and summons Zi Yuan, a sorceress who is said to know the secret of immortality. He sends her with General Ming, his trusted friend to an ancient monastery. There, Ming and Yuan find a spellbook known as the Oracle Bones where love blossoms between them while the Emperor also lusts for the latter. There, the two sleep together without dress and have sex. Having witnessed this, the Emperor kills Ming after having Yuan perform the procedures and then stabs her with a dagger, but having foreseen this event, she immolates and imprisons the Emperor and his soldiers in clay, turning them into the Terracotta Army, and flees. In 1946, Alex O'Connell, Rick and Evelyn O'Connell's son, and his archaeology professor Roger Wilson locate the emperor's tomb. Though attacked by a mysterious woman, they succeed in bringing the sarcophagus to Shanghai. Meanwhile, the British government entrusts the O'Connells to take the Eye of Shangri-La gemstone back to China. However, they learn that Wilson works for a rogue military faction led by General Yang, who had provided the financial backing of Alex's expedition. Yang believes that the Emperor is the one who can lead China out of the chaos following World War II and plans to resurrect him using the Eye, which contains the Elixir of Life. They open it, but it accidentally lands on the statue of the carriage driver, which is soon revealed to be the Emperor's mummified body. He accepts Yang's service but kills Wilson and escapes, despite the O'Connells' attempt to stop him in a pursuit.
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Emperor Han
