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Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for big-budget action films, such as The Mummy (1999), its sequel, The Mummy Returns (2001), Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). He also directed The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), Disney's first live-action version of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994), and the action-horror film Deep Rising (1998). Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Sommers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
He is an American film director, writer, and producer recognized for creating large-scale action-adventure spectacles and monster-themed entertainment.
He is best known for directing The Mummy (1999) and its sequel The Mummy Returns, as well as the action-horror film Van Helsing and the 1994 version of The Jungle Book.
Beyond directing many of his own projects, he penned the screenplays for The Mummy, Van Helsing, Deep Rising, and the 1993 adaptation of The Adventures of Huck Finn.