Stephen Sommers Bücher

From the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios was Hollywood’s number one studio for horror pictures, haunting movie theaters worldwide with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others. Universal Studios Monsters: A Legacy of Horror explores all of these enduring characters, chronicling both the mythology behind the films and offering behind-the-scenes insights into how the films were created. Universal Studios Monsters is the most complete record of the horror films of this legendary studio, with biographies of major personalities who were responsible for the most notable monster melodramas in film history. The stories of these films and their creators are told through interviews with surviving actors and studio employees. A lavish photographic record, including many behind-the-scenes shots, completes the story of how these classics were made. This is a volume no fan of imaginative cinema will want to be without.

Imhotep gibt seinen Traum von Unsterblichkeit nicht auf, und noch mächtigere Kräfte haben ein Auge auf Alex geworfen, der angeblich die Inkarnation des Gottes Isis ist. Der Kampf der mächtigen mystischen Kräfte entbrennt im Herzen der westlichen Zivilisation.

Contemporary / American English In Egypt Imhotep, High Priest of the Dead, stays in the ground for 3215 years. Then he wakes up from his half-life and he starts to kill. Evelyn works in a museum. Rick is a soldier. Can these very different people send Imhotep back to the dead -- and also find love?

A large-format book detailing the background and designs of the year's biggest movie. Includes interviews, set photos, sketches and CGI, complete with interviews and the movie screenplay. It is a time of darkness. With Europe on the threshold of industrial greatness, terrible and ancient powers are at work which threaten to bring down civilisation as we know it. An unholy alliance has been forged, and one man is charged with the responsibility of bringing down these awesome monstrosities. The future rests in the hands of the legendary Van Helsing... In a movie that will pitch cinema's three most iconic horror properties -- Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolfman -- against the world's greatest vampire hunter, Van Helsing, Universal Pictures' biggest film of 2004 is already a guaranteed success. Written and directed by Stephen Sommers, the man who turned The Mummy from a sleeping franchise into one of the most successful film events of the last five years, Van Helsing uses the latest in digital special effects to bring to the screen an epic clash between good and evil. movie which will reimagine gothic horror for a new 21st-century audience. A television spin-off series entitled Transylvania has already been announced for autumn 2004.

Jetzt herrscht der Warlord Memnon über die Wüsten des Nahen Ostens. Mit seinem Zauberer, der den Ausgang jeder Schlacht voraussagt, marschiert seine unbesiegte Armee und schlachtet diejenigen, die es wagen, sich ihm zu widersetzen. Memnon strebt danach, eine alte Prophezeiung zu erfüllen und der König der Legende zu werden, der bevorzugte Herrscher der Götter... Doch die Götter begünstigen einen anderen. Sein Name ist Mathayus. Ein unvergleichlicher Krieger, der die Überreste der Wüstenvölker inspirieren wird, sich gegen Memnons Tyrannei zu vereinen. Und er wird einen Thron besteigen, den er selbst errichtet...

Die Mumie - Das Buch zum Film - bk334; Heyne Verlag; Max Allan Collins; pocket_book; 1999