| Name | | Stephen Sommers | |
| General info : | | Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known for The Mummy (1999) and its sequel, The Mummy Returns (2001). He also directed Disney's live action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994), the action/horror film Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).
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| General info : | Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director, best known for The Mummy (1999) and its sequel, The Mummy Returns (2001). He also directed Disney's live action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994), the action/horror film Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2015) | Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Stephen Sommers wrote and directed The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and Van Helsing. He also wrote and produced the spin-off of the Mummy films, The Scorpion King, as well as Produced the third film in the trilogy The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor.
Before that, Sommers wrote and directed The Adventures of Huck Finn, starring Elijah Wood, Jason Robards and Robbie Coltrane, The Jungle Book, starring Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Sam Neill and John Cleese, and Deep Rising, starring Treat Williams and Famke Janssen. Sommers also wrote and executive produced Disney’s Tom and Huck with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro.
For television, he wrote and executive produced Oliver Twist, again working with Elijah Wood as well as Richard Dreyfuss.
Sommers most recently completed Paramount Pictures’ G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, starring Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Jonathan Pryce as well as Odd Thomas, based on the best selling Dean Koontz novel, starring Anton Yelchin and Willem DaFoe.
A native of Minnesota, Sommers attended St. John’s University and the University of Seville in Spain. Afterwards, Sommers spent the next three years in Europe, working in street theatre groups and managing rock bands.
From there, he relocated to Los Angeles and attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he earned a Masters Degree and wrote and directed the award-winning short film, Perfect Alibi. With independent funding, he wrote and directed his first motion picture, Catch Me If You Can, which was filmed in his hometown of St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Sommers lives with his wife and two daughters in Malibu, California.
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