Stephen Sommers is one of the best Hollywood directors and movie writers. This renowned movie director is best known for The Mummy, a blockbuster film in the year of 1999. the other two films that have earned him huge fame and popularity, are The Mummy Returns, the sequel of The Mummy and Van Helsing, the action- horror film.
Stephen Sommers was born on 20th March in the year of 1962 at Dayton in Ohio. He spent his early childhood in St. Cloud in Minnesota. He received his education in different stages in some of the famous institutions. These institutions are St. John's University at Collegeville in Minnesota and in University of Seville in the country of Spain.
After the completion of his education, Stephen Sommers continued to perform as an actor in the theaters for four years. He also kept on managing rock bands all throughout Europe. Stephen Sommers as an actor and as a manager to the rock bands could not become so much famous. After getting back to the United States of America, he went to Los Angeles and made a determined foray into the world of film making.
It is at this time that he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles. He stayed here for three years and became very famous as a competent learner. After attaining Graduation and Masters Degree, he wrote as well as directed a film in the name of Perfect Alibi. This film was a short one, and earned him good many awards.
At this stage, what Stephen Sommers needed to produce a film was the funding for it. He got the funding when Perfect Alibi turned out to be a success. With this funding Stephen wrote and directed Catch Me If You Can. The location of the filming of this teen racing film was in St. Cloud, the home town of the movie writer and director. He chose this location in order to save the funding.
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The list of the movies written and directed by Stephen Sommers includes famous films like The Adventures of Huck Finn, in the year of 1993, The Jungle Book in the year of 1994, Deep Rising in the year of 1998, The Mummy in the year of 1999, The Mummy Returns in the year of 2001, Van Helsing in the year of 2004, and Revenge of the Mummy in the year of 2004. Stephen Sommers has also been a producer to a good number of films including The Scorpion King and Van Helsing.
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