Stephen Sommers

Though featuring none of the characters from the film the series (which was to have made use of the film's Prague set) was about a young cowboy from Texas who becomes a Stephen Sommersriff in Transylvania has many strange adventures and encounters many strange creatures. The film was sold at the Cannes Film Festival for $7 million and later debuted on video in the United States. Almost four years later broke and in danger of having his house repossessed he wrote and directed an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huck Finn for Walt Disney Pictures as well as Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). Stephen Sommers (born March 20 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for The Mummy (1999) and its sequel The Mummy Returns (2001).