Van Helsing: The London Assignment

Van Helsing: The London Assignment
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Directed by	Sharon Bridgeman
Produced by	John Kafka
Written by	Garfield Reeves-Stevens Judith Reeves-Stevens
Starring	Hugh Jackman Robbie Coltrane David Wenham
Music by	John Van Tongeren
Editing by	Ken Solomon
Studio	Universal Cartoon Studios
Distributed by	Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Release date(s)	April 17, 2004 (2004-04-17) (Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival) May 11, 2004 (2004-05-11) (United States)
Running time	30 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Van Helsing: The London Assignment is a 2004 animated film by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. It features the voices of Hugh Jackman, Robbie Coltrane and David Wenham.

Plot

The London Assignment is an animated prequel to the 2004 motion picture Van Helsing (released the same year). It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decidedly supernatural murders, being committed by the mad scientist Dr. Jekyll, in the form of his evil alter-ego, Mr. Hyde. When tracing Hyde to his underground fortress, Van Helsing finds a young woman who claims to be Queen Victoria, and discovers that Dr. Jekyll is in love with the Queen and in order to keep her young and thus immortal has been placed under a spell by Dr. Jekyll that turns her into a young woman for one night. In order to create the potion which causes the transformations Dr. Jekyll needs the drained souls of his freshly killed victims and thus the killings will never stop. Dr. Jekyll then kidnapps the Queen using the Golden Jubilee Balloon to escape. Van Helsing uses his grappling gun to follow the balloon then proceeds to board it. In the balloon, Dr. Jekyll becomes Mr. Hyde to kill Van Helsing and crashes the Balloon in the process. While fighting on the in-construction London Bridge, Mr. Hyde is shot through the arm but manages to escape. Upon returning the Queen, Van Helsing says that daybreak will break the spell, returning her to her real age. To reward him, the Queen kisses him, at the precise moment of daybreak, causing her to slap him and call for guards. Van Helsing sends word back to the Vatican about what has happened while he tracks Jekyll to Paris.

Cast

• Hugh Jackman as Gabriel Van Helsing
• David Wenham as Carl
• Robbie Coltrane as Mr. Hyde
• Dwight Schultz as Dr. Jekyll
• Tara Strong as Young Queen Victoria
• John DiMaggio as Carriage Driver

External links

• Van Helsing: The London Assignment at the Internet Movie Database