Though attacked by a mysterious woman, they bring the sarcophagus to Shanghai. In 1946, Alex O'Connell, Rick and Evelyn O'Connell's son, and his archaeology professor Roger Wilson locate the Emperor's tomb. Having foreseen this event however, she immolates and imprisons the Emperor and his soldiers in clay, turning them into the Terracotta Army, and flees. When he witnesses them consummating their relationship, the Emperor has Ming executed in retaliation after having Yuan perform the procedure and stabs her with a dagger. They fall in love, though the Emperor lusts for the former. He sends her to an ancient monastery with his second-in-command and most trusted friend, General Ming, to find the long-lost Oracle Bones. The Emperor grows fearful that his death will end all he has accomplished and summons Zi Yuan, a sorceress said to know the secret of immortality. He orders the construction of the Great Wall of China, where his enemies' corpses are buried underneath the site, eventually learning power over the traditional Chinese Wuxing elements. In ancient China, a warlord unites the country's kingdoms into an empire and becomes the Dragon Emperor. Universal Pictures rebooted the Mummy film in 2017 as an attempt to start the Dark Universe franchise.

The film received mostly negative reviews from critics and grossed $403 million worldwide, the trilogy's lowest-grossing film.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor premiered in Moscow on July 24, 2008, and was released in the United States on August 1, 2008. It is the third and final installment in The Mummy trilogy and stars Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello (who replaces Rachel Weisz in the first two films), John Hannah, Luke Ford, Anthony Wong, and Michelle Yeoh. The film is set in China, departing from the Egyptian setting, and focuses on the Terracotta Army's origins. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is a 2008 American action- adventure fantasy film, directed by Rob Cohen, written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, and produced by Stephen Sommers (director of the first two films), Bob Ducsay, Sean Daniel, and James Jacks.

The mummy returns cast 2008