The Scorpion King
The Scorpion King is a 2002 American action film directed by Chuck Russell.
The events of The Scorpion King take place 5,000 years before those in The Mummy and The
Mummy Returns.
Mathayus, the last true Akkadian mercenary, along with his half-brother is hired by King Pheron to
kill a sorcerer, whose prophetic powers allow the vicious Egyptian Emperor Memnon to rule
his empire with an iron fist. He sneaks into Memnon's camp and finds his way to the sorcerer's tent,
where he discovers that Memnon's sorcerer is actually a beautiful sorceress called Cassandra.
Mathayus and Cassandra, now King and Queen of Egypt, bid their farewells to Balthazar, who
wishes them well