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The Scorpion King
Directed by	Chuck Russell
Produced by	Vince McMahon Stephen Sommers James Jacks Kevin Misher Sean Daniel
Written by	Screenplay: Stephen Sommers William Osborne David Hayter Story: Jonathan Hales Stephen Sommers
Starring	Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Steven Brand Kelly Hu Bernard Hill Grant Heslov Peter Facinelli Ralf Moeller Roger Rees Sherri Howard Branscombe Richmond and Michael Clarke Duncan
Music by	John Debney
Cinematography	John R. Leonetti
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	United States: April 19, 2002
Running time	93 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$60 million
Gross revenue	Domestic: $91,047,077 Worldwide: $164,996,077
Followed by	The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior

The Scorpion King is a 2002 film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Steven Brand, Ralf Moeller and Grant Heslov, and is directed by Chuck Russell. It is a prequel to The Mummy series, following the story of Mathayus the Scorpion King, the character featured in The Mummy Returns. The character and plot parallel those of the fictional character Conan the Barbarian^{[citation needed]} to some extent.

The events of The Scorpion King take place 5000 years before those in The Mummy Returns, and reveal Mathayus' origins and his rise to power as the Scorpion King. The name itself is a reference to a real king of the protodynastic period of Ancient Egyptian history, Scorpion II.

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