Movie:the Scorpion King
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Dwayne Johnson Reacts to 'The Scorpion King' 15 Years Later
On April 19, 2002, Johnson took his first tentative steps from wrestler to movie star when he headlined The Scorpion King, a feature film based around a character he had originated a year earlier in the opening sequence of The Mummy Returns. First some backstory: Johnson learned the Scorpion King would be getting his own feature after only a few days of shooting The Mummy Returns. “I had things coming up out of my body I could not even describe!” Fortunately, news of The Scorpion King standalo
