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Stephen Sommers

Highest Rated: 80% Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994)

Lowest Rated: 13% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

Birthday: Mar 20, 1962

Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Young American filmmaker came straight out of film school to direct his first feature, the low-budgeted actioner, "Catch Me if You Can" (1989). On the basis of that film and his script for "The Adventures of Huck Finn," Disney offered Sommers a "director's test," a two-scene $20,000 short with one day's filming. Impressed with the results, Disney allowed Sommers to direct his script for "Huck Finn" (1993) and offered him a two year production deal. He scripted the less successful western yarn "Gunmen" (1994), then attained solid critical and commercial success with his direction and co-scripting for the remake of "Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book" (1994) loosely based on the classic tale of a young boy raised in the wild.

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Highest rated movies

80% 56% Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
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75% 50% The Adventures of Huck Finn
Watchlist 62% 75% The Mummy Watchlist
46% 63% The Mummy Returns
Watchlist 40% 37% The Scorpion King Watchlist
37% 65% Odd Thomas
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36% 44% Deep Rising
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33% 50% G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
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29% 48% G.I. Joe: Retaliation
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25% 42% Tom and Huck
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Stephen Sommers

Stephen Sommers VAN HELSING, Hugh Jackman, Director Stephen Sommers, 2004 (c) Universal G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, producer Bob Ducsay (eyeglasses), director Stephen Sommers (white shirt), Dennis Quaid (military uniform), cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen (front right), producer David Womark (right), on set, 2009. Ph: Frank Masi/©Paramount G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, from left: producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, director Stephen Sommers, on set, 2009. Ph: Frank Masi/©Paramount VAN HELSING, Producer Bob Ducsay, Director Stephen Sommers, 2004 (c) Universal VAN HELSING, director Stephen Sommers (far right), on set, 2004. ©Universal G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, director Stephen Sommers, on set, 2009. Ph: Frank Masi/©Paramount Face Off, from left: Glenn Hetrick, Ve Neill, Neville Page, Stephen Sommers, 'Sexy Beasts', Season 6, Ep. #1, 01/14/2014, ©SYFY Face Off, Stephen Sommers (L), McKenzie Westmore (R), 'Sexy Beasts', Season 6, Ep. #1, 01/14/2014, ©SYFY View more photos

Filmography

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Credit
37% 65% Odd Thomas Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 2013
29% 48% G.I. Joe: Retaliation Executive Producer $122.5M 2013
No Score Yet 15% The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption Executive Producer - 2012
33% 50% G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Director,
Executive Producer 		$150.2M 2009
No Score Yet 18% The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior Producer - 2008
13% 30% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Producer $102.2M 2008
No Score Yet 53% Van Helsing: The London Assignment Executive Producer - 2004
24% 57% Van Helsing Director,
Writer,
Producer 		$120.0M 2004
40% 37% The Scorpion King Writer,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$90.3M 2002
46% 63% The Mummy Returns Director,
Writer 		$202.0M 2001
62% 75% The Mummy Director,
Screenwriter,
Screenwriter 		- 1999
36% 44% Deep Rising Director,
Writer 		$11.2M 1998
25% 42% Tom and Huck Screenwriter $23.9M 1995
80% 56% Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book Director $43.2M 1994
75% 50% The Adventures of Huck Finn Director,
Writer 		$23.8M 1993
No Score Yet 79% Catch Me if You Can Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1989