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January 18, 2004 — From Redlands Daily Facts' interview with 'Van Helsing' director Stephen Sommers:
You can be assured Jackman won't be playing your father's Van Helsing -- or "Dracula' author Bram Stoker's, either. "No,' Sommers teases. "It's his younger, hipper brother, I would say. I mean, as great as Anthony Hopkins and Peter Cushing were in the role -- and it's been played something like 150 times -- this character is somehow related. He's a professional monster fighter, but he's got more baggage to him.' As do his adversaries.
`I went into it saying it's not a movie about monsters,' Sommers reveals. "It's about people with very bad problems. So we got really great actors. Forget about the special effects for a second; just wait'll you see Richard Roxburgh's performance as Dracula or Shuler Hensley's as Frankenstein. They're just knockout great performances.'
Well, OK. But will there be "Mummy'-level visual effects? "In the old movies, Dracula turned into a bat,' Sommers says, trying to sound reassuring. "He should turn into a flying creature, but who's afraid of a bat? I'm not, I grew up with one in the belfry. But then I thought, if he had a 15-foot wingspan, that would be something. I just kind of went from there. I love going over these old movies, finding all the things we know about them and coming up with new stuff.'
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