The director, Stephen Sommers

When Worlds Collide - The Movie

Stephen Sommers born on March 20, 1962 is the rising charismatic writer cum director whose talent came to be recognized after the film,’ Catch me if you can’. Raised in St Cloud, he left to join college in New York and Seville in Spain and spend his time in Europe as a performer and band manager, but was lured back to United States to try his dreams in film school.

His hard work paid off and soon gained entry into Hollywood with the adaptation of Adventures of Huck Finn in 1993 and Rudyard Kipling’s, The Jungle Book the next year. After this he ventured towards more hi tech, grown up films like the thriller Deep Rising. He finally struck rich with his version of The Mummy in 1999, using high tech digital effects; Sommers cleverly pulled the audience with the monstrous Imhotep and the dashing hero Brendan Fraser which became a huge blockbuster overnight. Soon the sequel followed in 2001 with famous stars like Rock playing the role of the Scorpion king.

      As expected, it was a huge success, gaining him a top place in Hollywood. As a graduate of the university of Southern California’s School of Cinema television, Stephen Sommers is best known to reinvent and update classic horror film characters of the 40’s and adapting them to the present situation. His Van Helsing 2004 is another of his experiments.

            For his success, he simply says that it was the outcome of a lot of hard work. His latest flick was supposed to be the remake of ‘When worlds collide’ but has stepped aside and left the grounds for the expert Stephen Spielberg. Stephen Sommers is now all set to concentrate on directing ‘Night of the museum’ for 20th Century Fox instead.

This movie is loosely based on Milan’s Trenc’s children book ‘The night at the museum’ to be produced by Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan. The story focus on a good hearted but bumbling security guard at the Museum of Natural History who accidentally comes across an ancient curse that causes the animals and insects on display to come to life, creating intense havoc.