# The Mummy! (Not Da Movie)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 29, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mummy-not-da-movie/20771 "2000-05-29T01:56:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mummy-not-da-movie/20771/1 "2000-05-29T01:56:55Z")

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The old Universal Studios Mummy was supposed to be based on a novel.

Title, please?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mummy-not-da-movie/20771/2 "2000-05-29T04:15:43Z")

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According to the credits, it was based on a story by Hollywood screenwriters Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer.

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mummy-not-da-movie/20771/3 "2000-05-29T20:10:13Z")

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…and it looks like they swiped a whole hell of a lot of it from DRACULA, which had been released in February of the preceding year.