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In this internet exclusive,
Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale talk about their roles in
Van Helsing, the enormous amount of time they have for director
Steven Sommers and Draculas Brides!
During a time in history when the
supernatural still seemed as conceivable as the everyday,
when storytellers supplied
imaginative reasons for the unexplained and when mythic creatures
still crept by night…there was a single figure fighting
against the dwindling mysteries hidden in the encroaching
darkness: Van Helsing.
Gabriel Van Helsing (HUGH JACKMAN) is a man cursed with
a past he cannot recall and driven by a mission he cannot
deny. Charged by a secret organization to seek out and defeat
evil the world over, his efforts to rid the world of its
nightmarish creatures have been rewarded with the title that
now follows him: murderer.
Van Helsing roams the globe an outcast,
a fugitive, a loner, himself hunted by those who don’t
understand the true nature of his calling.
When dispatched to the shadowy world
of Transylvania, Van Helsing finds a land still mired in
its past…where
legendary creatures of darkness come to life…a place
ruled over by the evil, seductive and undefeatable vampire,
Count Dracula (RICHARD ROXBURGH)…and it is Dracula
that Van Helsing has been sent to terminate.
Anna Valerious (KATE BECKINSALE) is one of the last of a
powerful royal family, now nearly annihilated by Dracula.
A fearless hunter in her own right, Anna is bent on avenging
her ancestors and ending an ancient curse by killing the
vampire.
Joined by a common foe, Van Helsing and Anna set out to
destroy Dracula along with his empire of fear. But in challenging
an enemy who never dies, Van Helsing uncovers a secret he
never imagined and comes face-to-face with the unresolved
mysteries of his own enshrouded past.
STEPHEN SOMMERS, the innovative filmmaker behind the worldwide
successes of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, now takes audiences
to an action-filled, fantastical world, where the iconic
monsters of cinema legend meet the famed monster hunter out
to vanquish evil in all its forms: Van Helsing.
Distributor: UIP
Running Time: 132 mins
Release Date: 7th May 2004
Certificate: 12A
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