Stephen Sommers directed The Adventures of Huck Finn, Disney's live action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and the action horror film Deep Rising.
10 Facts About Stephen Sommers
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Stephen Sommers was born in Indianapolis, and grew up in St Cloud, Minnesota, where he attended St Cloud Apollo High School.
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Stephen Sommers is a graduate of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the University of Seville in Spain.
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Stephen Sommers eventually returned to the United States and moved to Los Angeles, where he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts for three years, earning a master's degree and writing and directing the award-winning short film Perfect Alibi.
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Perfect Alibi helped Sommers acquire independent funding to write and direct his first feature film, the teen racing film Catch Me If You Can, filmed for $800,000 on location in his hometown of St Cloud.
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Stephen Sommers later wrote the screenplays for Gunmen and Tom and Huck, which he executive produced for Disney, and worked as a staff writer at Hollywood Pictures.
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In 2004, Stephen Sommers founded his own company, The Stephen Sommers Company, and returned to theater screens with Van Helsing, a film pitting legendary vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing against the triumvirate of Universal movie monsters: Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster.
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Since Van Helsing, Stephen Sommers has been attached to a number of projects.
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Stephen Sommers was originally set to direct Night at the Museum, but dropped out due to creative differences.
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Stephen Sommers opted out of directing the third Mummy film, titled The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, instead becoming one of its producers.