Cinégraphe | Greg Michael

Filmmaker, screenwriter & professor. 20+ years on major Hollywood productions. Exploring the craft, language & meaning of cinema — one movie at a time.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

🚨 THE MUMMY IS BACK 🚨

And most importantly, Arnold Vosloo (IMHOTEP) is rejoining the original cast.

I directed second unit on The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.

On @thecinegraphe, I take you behind the camera, from building that opening battle to the choices that made Rick (Brendan Fraser) a hero worth following.

Before the next adventure, discover how we made the originals.

How do you turn a story into something audiences remember? Follow @thecinegraphe for filmmaking, storytelling, and firsthand accounts of bringing movies to life.

Start with The Mummy’s opening battle. Full story below.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

@ImmortalBitesDB It was tons of fun to make! What was your favorite part?

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

In Pulp Fiction, Vincent takes his boss’s wife out for the evening—and ends up having to plunge a needle into her chest to save her life.

What does this moment tell us about him—and what does it hint at with Butch and Jules?

[Peter Michael @PeterMichael00]

@themummy is coming back to theaters.

Ahead of the newest film, take a look back at what made the originals so special.

These movies helped shape an entire genre and this is your chance to go behind the scenes and see what it was like to be part of one of the defining franchises of the early 2000s.

@thecinegraphe

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

When I was around three, my mother would wake me in the middle of the night so she wouldn’t have to watch horror movies alone.

That may be as good a place as any to begin the story of how Cinégraphe came about.

https://t.co/sMV7fakRi7

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

Read it here:

https://t.co/pQJ3i7IEnS

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

You probably know Jaws by heart.

But what if you’re still missing half the story?

There’s something happening to Brody beneath the shark attacks, the music, and the familiar lines—and it may help explain why stories work the way they do.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

https://t.co/wZ6dEqq9iP

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

🚨 THE MUMMY IS BACK 🚨

And most importantly, Arnold Vosloo (IMHOTEP) is rejoining the original cast.

I directed second unit on The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.

On @thecinegraphe, I take you behind the camera, from building that opening battle to the choices that made Rick (Brendan Fraser) a hero worth following.

Before the next adventure, discover how we made the originals.

How do you turn a story into something audiences remember? Follow @thecinegraphe for filmmaking, storytelling, and firsthand accounts of bringing movies to life.

Start with The Mummy’s opening battle. Full story below.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

🚨 THE MUMMY IS BACK 🚨

And most importantly, Arnold Vosloo (IMHOTEP) is rejoining the original cast.

I directed second unit on The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.

On @thecinegraphe, I take you behind the camera, from building that opening battle to the choices that made Rick (Brendan Fraser) a hero worth following.

Before the next adventure, discover how we made the originals.

How do you turn a story into something audiences remember? Follow @thecinegraphe for filmmaking, storytelling, and firsthand accounts of bringing movies to life.

Start with The Mummy’s opening battle. Full story below.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

@CultureCrave @JackCarrUSA Glad he’s joining the cast. How could The Mummy be the mummy without the mummy?

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

@PopOffShow Wouldn’t be the same without him! Fun to work with, great screen presence, good sense of humor.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

@DyerbolicalDB Good news. Glad to see him back. Third time’s a charm!

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

@movieweb Wouldn’t be the same without him! Fun to work with, a real professional, and a good sense of humor.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

@screenrant Wouldn’t be the same without him!

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

@CoveredGeekly @JackCarrUSA Glad to see he’s doing this. Tons of fun to work with—and good sense humor!

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

Rick could run just as Beni does in The Mummy’s opening battle. Instead, he fights until retreat is his only way to survive.

He doesn’t have to win for us to recognize his courage. That’s how we begin establishing a hero with the backbone to face Imhotep.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

How do you turn a handwritten vision into an epic battle? One shot at a time.

Building an Epic Battle: The Mummy Unwrapped, Part II

https://t.co/do17zgstko

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

“Get it ALL. Big—Big—Big. Do not take ‘No’ for an answer.”

Stephen Sommers wrote that in a note for The Mummy’s opening battle, slipped under my hotel-room door the night before I began filming.

Here’s how we turned it into film—one shot at a time. Full story below.

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

Here's the story:

https://t.co/vMnErQ8WTT

[Cinégraphe | Greg Michael @thecinegraphe]

The night before I began directing second unit on The Mummy’s opening battle, I found a note from Stephen Sommers beneath my hotel-room door.

One line read: “80 million dollars rides on this.”

Twenty-eight years later, I still have the note.