question: Who directed the fictionalized account of the Tsavo Man-Eaters who were responsible for the deaths of a number of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway? 
answer: Stephen Hopkins
context: Title: The Man-eaters of Tsavo
  Passage: The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a book written by John Henry Patterson in 1907 that recounts his experiences while overseeing the construction of a railroad bridge in what would become Kenya.  It is titled after a pair of lions which killed his workers, and which he eventually killed.
  Title: The Ghost and the Darkness
  Passage: The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas.  The screenplay was written by William Goldman.  The story is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo Man-Eaters, two lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo, Kenya, during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.
  Title: Tsavo West National Park
  Passage: Tsavo West National Park is located in the Coast Province of Kenya.  The park covers an area of 9,065 square kilometres.  The A109 road Nairobi-Mombasa and a railway divides it from the adjoining Tsavo East National Park.  Together with adjoining ranches and protected areas, they comprise the Tsavo Conservation Area.  Tsavo West is a more popular destination on account of its magnificent scenery, Mzima Springs, rich and varied wildlife, good road system, rhino reserve, rock climbing potential and guided walks along the Tsavo River.  The park is operated by Kenya Wildlife Service.
  Title: UR G class
  Passage: The UR G class, known later as the UR / KUR GA class, and later still as the KUR EB class, was a class of gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built by Nasmyth, Wilson and Company in Patricroft, Salford, England, for the Uganda Railway (UR).  The seven members of the class entered service on the UR in 1914, and continued in service after the UR was renamed the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR) in 1926.
  Title: Tsavo Man-Eaters
  Passage: The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of man-eating Tsavo lions responsible for the deaths of a number of construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway from March through December 1898.  The significance of this pair of lions was their unusual behavior, such as the number of men killed and the manner of the attacks.
  Title: Man-Eaters of Kumaon
  Passage: Man-Eaters of Kumaon is a 1944 book written by hunter-naturalist Jim Corbett.  It details the experiences that Corbett had in the Kumaon region of India from the 1900s to the 1930s, while hunting man-eating Bengal tigers and Indian leopards.  One tiger, for example, was responsible for over 400 human deaths.  "Man-Eaters of Kumaon" is the best known of Corbett's books and contains 10 stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalayas during the early years of the twentieth century.  The text also contains incidental information on flora, fauna and village life.  Seven of the stories were first published privately as Jungle Stories.
  Title: Rift Valley Railways Consortium
  Passage: Rift Valley Railways (RVR) is a consortium that was established to manage the parastatal railways of Kenya and Uganda.  The consortium won the bid for private management of the century-old Uganda Railway in 2005.  The Kenya-Uganda railway had been run by the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation 1948 - 1977.  In 2014, RVR moved 1,334 million net tonne kilometers of rail freight, up from 1,185 million net tonne kilometers the previous year.
  Title: KUR EC class
  Passage: The KUR EC class was a class of gauge 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives.  The four members of the class, built by Beyer, Peacock & Co. in Manchester, England, were the first Garratts to be ordered and acquired by the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR).  They entered service in 1926, and, after a relatively short but successful career with the KUR, were sold and exported to Indo-China in August 1939.
  Title: Hinduism in Uganda
  Passage: Hinduism in Uganda arrived when the colonial British Empire brought Hindus along with other Indian workers to its East African colonies in late 19th and early 20th centuries.  The largest arrival of Hindu immigrants to Uganda, some educated and skilled but mostly poor and struggling from the famine-prone areas of Punjab and Gujarat, was to help construct the Kenya-Uganda Railway connecting landlocked parts of Uganda and Kenya with the port city of Mombasa.  The largest departure of Hindus from Uganda occurred when General Idi Amin expelled them and seized their properties in 1972.
  Title: John Henry Patterson (author)
  Passage: Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Patterson, DSO (10 November 1867 – 18 June 1947), known as J. H. Patterson, was an Irish born British soldier, hunter, author and Christian Zionist, best known for his book "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo" (1907), which details his experiences while building a railway bridge over the Tsavo river in British East Africa (now Kenya) in 1898–99.  The book has inspired three Hollywood films - "Bwana Devil" (1952), "Killers of Kilimanjaro" (1959) and "The Ghost and the Darkness" (1996) in which he was portrayed by Val Kilmer.
citations: Tsavo Man-Eaters The Ghost and the Darkness