With the help of Yetis summoned by Lin, the group hold off Yang's soldiers but the Emperor discovers Shangri-La's location. Lin attempts to kill the Emperor with a magical dagger, the only weapon that can destroy him.Īlong with Evelyn's brother Jonathan Carnahan, who owns a Shanghai nightclub named Imhotep's, the O'Connells and Lin travel to a stupa in the Himalayas that will reveal the path to Shangri-La when the Eye is placed on top of it. He accepts Yang and Choi's service but kills Wilson. The Emperor is revived, trapped in his terracotta undead form. By accident, the magical fluid within the Eye lands on the statue of the carriage driver, revealing itself to be the Emperor's actual body. The mysterious woman from the tomb, Lin, stabs the mummified body within the coffin and discovers it is a decoy. Wilson is actually a member of a rogue military faction led by General Yang and his deputy, Choi, who see the Emperor as the one who can restore order and greatness to China. Meanwhile, the British government entrusts the O'Connells to take the Eye of Shangri-La back to China. Three assistants are killed by booby traps and Alex is attacked by a mysterious woman, but succeeds in bringing the Emperor's coffin to Shanghai. In 1946, archaeologist Alex O'Connell, Rick and Evelyn O'Connell's son, locates the Emperor's tomb with the financial backing of archaeology professor Roger Wilson. Revealing that she has foreseen these events, Zi Yuan immolates and detains the Emperor and transforms his army into the Terracotta Army, and the sorceress flees. After she seemingly casts a spell on the Emperor in Sanskrit, a language he does not understand, he has Ming executed and impales her with a dagger.
He hears of a sorceress, Zi Yuan, who is said to know the secret of immortality and sends his henchman, General Ming Guo, to bring her to the palace. Years later, he begins to grow fearful that all he has accomplished will be lost upon his death. The Emperor's mystics teach him supernatural mastery over the Five Elements. He orders the construction of the Great Wall of China to bury and curse his dead enemies. In ancient China, Qin Shi Huang, a brutal and tyrannical warlord, unites the country's kingdoms into an empire and becomes The Dragon Emperor. This film departed from the previous Egyptian setting. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and produced by Stephen Sommers (director of the previous two films), Bob Ducsay, Sean Daniel, and James Jacks. The film stars Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Luke Ford, and Jet Li, and was released on Augin the United States. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a 2008 American adventure film and sequel to The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001).
For the video game adaptation of the movie, see The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (video game).