Stephen Sommers

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Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American film producer and screenwriter best known for big-budget films, such as The Mummy (1999), Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: Cobra's meteoric rise (2009).

He also produced Disney's live action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) and the cult classic horror film Deep Rising (1998).

Early life

Stephen Sommers was born in Indianapolis and grew up in St. Germain. Cloud, Minnesota, where he attended St. Germain, Minnesota. Cloud Apollo High School was founded in a cloud. He is a 1980 graduate of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the University of Seville, Spain. He spent four years as an actor in theater companies and directing rock bands around Europe after graduating. He later 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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Career

Perfect Alibi worked with Sommers to write and direct his first feature film, Catch Me If You Can, directed by Brad Garrett, which was shot on location in his hometown of St. Tex. Cloud. The film was sold at the Cannes Film Festival for $7 million and then debuted on television in the United States.

Almost four years later, Jim Twain's masterpiece The Adventures of Huck Finn for Walt Disney Pictures, as well as Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, wrote and directed an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huck Finn for Walt Disney Pictures. He later wrote the screenplays for Gunmen and Tom and Huck, which he also produced for Disney (along with a television version of Oliver Twist starring Richard Dreyfuss and Elijah Wood) and spent time as a staff writer at Hollywood Pictures. While there, he directed Tentacle, which he later directed under the title Deep Rising in 1998.

He wrote and directed Universal Studios' big-budget version of The Mummy in 1999. The film was a huge success, and the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films gave Sommers two Saturn Awards for Best Director and Best Writer in 2000. The Mummy Returns, a smashing sequel that came two years later, and he wrote and produced 2002's The Scorpion King, a prequel/spin-off of The Mummy Returns.

Sommers founded his own firm in 2004 (along with editor/producer Bob Ducsay) The Sommers Company) and returned to theater screens with Van Helsing, a film pitting legendary vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing against Universal movie monsters' triumvirate: Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's masterpiece. Sommers and Ducsay began producing Transylvania, a NBC spin-off television series before Van Helsing premiered. Despite not starring any of the characters from the film, the series (which was supposed to have made use of the film's Prague set) about a young cowboy from Texas who becomes a sheriff in Transylvania has many strange creatures. Sommers and Ducsay were supposed to be executive producers, and Sommers wrote scripts for the pilot and first several episodes of the series, but NBC decided not to continue with the show.

Sommers, Van Helsing, has been involved in a variety of projects. He had intended to direct Night at the Museum but had to cancel due to creative inconsistencies. He was also part of a remake of When World Collide (to be produced by Steven Spielberg), a new big-screen adaptation of Flash Gordon, a romantic/adventure story based on the novel Airborn, a French film Les Victimes, and a swashbuckling adventure film based on the French film Les Victimes. Sommers decided against directing the third Mummy film, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, rather than becoming one of the Dragon Emperor's creators.

In the summer 2009 live-action version of G.I., Sommers directed Paramount Pictures. Joe is the Rise of Cobra and has also worked as a producer. He was designing a Tarzan adaptation for Warner Bros around the time but decided against it. Odd Thomas, the company's most recent film, had been postponed due to litigation against it, but it was eventually released.

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