"Stephen Sommers" is an United States/American screenwriter and film director, best known for The Mummy (1999 film)/The Mummy (1999) and its sequel, The Mummy Returns (2001). He also directed Disney's live action version of The Jungle Book (1994 film)/Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994), the action/horror film Van Helsing (film)/Van Helsing (2004), and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009).

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The key to humor in a horror film is that it has to be organic. It has to be organic to the situation.... if you know you're doing anything to get a laugh, or anything to scare people - that's great. But to try to get people to do both - to try to get people to scream in horror, and a moment later burst out laughing - I think that's a neater trick.

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Frankenstein's monster is so iconographic, so my creature designers spent many, many months designing him. I said, 'OK, he has to have a flat head, blots on his neck and Doc Martens on his feet, but other that - we can play with him'.

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North West Frontier.

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I wanted to make a small movie about a guy and a girl on the beach, but then I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a werewolf was there?

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There are four movies that got me into wanting to make movies: Journey to the Center of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Swiss Family Robinson, and Jason and the Argonauts. Those are the movies that took me to different places when I was a kid. I fell in love with movies by watching those movies.

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A Night at the Museum.

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I hope in my career I get to do every kind of movie. When I did Huck Finn, I got all those Disney kid scripts. When I did Jungle Book, then I got all the animal scripts. Now I do a couple Mummy movies and it's like, 'Oh, he does monsters.

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