''The Anubis Tapestry: Between Twilights'' is a 2006 fantasy novel written and illustrated by Bruce Zick.

Plot summary

Chance Henry's archaeologist father accidentally awakens an evil

mummy A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay fu ...

who steals his soul. Chance risks becoming a mummy himself to rescue his father from the

Egyptian Underworld The Duat ( egy, dwꜣt, Egyptological pronunciation "do-aht", cop, ⲧⲏ, also appearing as ''Tuat'', ''Tuaut'' or ''Akert'', ''Amenthes'', ''Amenti'', or ''Neter-khertet'') is the realm of the dead in ancient Egyptian mythology. It has been ...

Cancelled film adaptation

In 2008,

Blue Sky Studios Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American computer animation studio based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on February 22, 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown, and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their ...

acquired the film rights for an animated film titled ''Anubis''.

David H. Steinberg David H. Steinberg is an American writer, director, and producer for film and television. He wrote the screenplays for ''American Pie 2'', ''Slackers'', ''National Lampoon's Barely Legal'', and '' American Pie Presents'': ''The Book of Love'' a ...

wrote the first draft for the film. The film was originally scheduled for release on July 15, 2016, by

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, but was delayed to March 23, 2018, but, by June 2017, it had been removed from its schedule for unknown reasons. In February 2021,

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( which bought Fox in 2019) announced that Blue Sky would shut down in April, and cancelled ''Anubis''.

References

2006 American novels 2006 fantasy novels Children's fantasy novels American children's novels Fiction about mummies American fantasy novels adapted into films Egyptian mythology in popular culture 2006 children's books Cancelled films {{2000s-child-fantasy-novel-stub