What famous authors inspired two dark adventure movies featuring Hugh Jackman in the same year?
Van Helsing (film) Van Helsing is a 2004 American dark fantasy action-adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as vigilante monster hunter Van Helsing, and Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious. The film is an homage and tribute to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and '40s (also produced by Universal Studios which were in turn based on novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley), of which Sommers is a fan.
Eldorado (novel) Eldorado, by Baroness Orczy is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, "The Scarlet Pimpernel". It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of the original book.