This not only could inspire audiences to research the true history of the film’s inspirations, but also provides a change of scenery.
While the first two Mummy movies anchored themselves as mostly taking place in the confines of Egypt and London, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor made the wise decision to shift the action to China.
People may not have reacted to the movie as well as had been hoped, but at the very least it gave Universal a way out of Egypt.
With a new location, a new culture was brought into the mix.