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Yo all! I just found out that they are trying to make a Beowulf movie, and it's filming right now! I just read that story for the first time a couple of days ago and I thought it was SO COOl! I'm just really into that kind of thing, and I can't wait to find out more about it!
Ok, so I just found out, again, that their is a really lousy version of Beowulf, and some other people are just trying to remake it. sorry

There has already been at least one Beowulf movie (though I hear it was pretty awful) and I'm sure there are others. It would be nice if they made it a good movie this time.

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CDLviking wrote:There has already been at least one Beowulf movie (though I hear it was pretty awful) and I'm sure there are others. It would be nice if they made it a good movie this time.

It is veeeerrryyy bad and corny and fake. I had to eatch it for english.

Hitokiri wrote:It is veeeerrryyy bad and corny and fake. I had to eatch it for english.

As far as the original story goes, the movie is a travesty. In some ways though, it's a classic of bad film-making, and can be a fair bit of fun if you watch it with the right mindset.

This is the Christopher Lambert one you're talking about?

Wasn't there a movie that was kind-of, sort-of loosely based on Beowulf years ago? The Thirteenth Warrior or some other, starring Antonio Banderas. Seemed to me to be too much like Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai.

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Thirteenth Warrior was based on Michael Creighton's (sp?) Eaters of the Dead, if I'm not mistaken. The western The Magnificent Seven actually was a western remake of The Seven Samurai.

You are not mistaken about Thirteenth Warrior being based on Eaters of the Dead.

A couple of years ago I saw a slightly post noclear styled, slightly altered version of a Beowolf movie. I rather liked it. I've never heard of any other version of Beowolf movie than that one.

My friend (a Brit Lit teacher who goes through Beowulf every year with her classes) said that 13th Warrior is based loosely on Beowulf, though there are obvious changes as well as easy-to-see parallels. I haven't read Eaters of the Dead, but I would think it was at least inspired by Beowulf if 13th Warrior came from it.

Yep to what Aka-chan said. That's the reason why we had to watch 13th Warrior for school after taking up Beowulf. I haven't read Crichton's book yet, though I was aware of it after watching the movie and when I had to do a paper on the film. Hehe, it's all coming back to me now.

And 13th Warrior still reminds me a lot of Seven Samurai, quite personally, what with all that rounding-up-of-warriors-to-save-another-land theme going around. XD And no, I've never heard of The Magnificent Seven.

Aka-chan wrote:My friend (a Brit Lit teacher who goes through Beowulf every year with her classes) said that 13th Warrior is based loosely on Beowulf, though there are obvious changes as well as easy-to-see parallels. I haven't read Eaters of the Dead, but I would think it was at least inspired by Beowulf if 13th Warrior came from it.

I have to admit, I really don't see the similarity, other than that both involve iron age Scandanavia.

This is the Christopher Lambert one you're talking about?

That's the one.

SwordSkill wrote:
Hey, ye who Britomart hights...be thou a follower of the Faerie Queene? ^^

Yes! Now I know 3 people who know who I am!

And thank you all for the infromation. Does anybody know where I can get more information on the NEW Beowulf movie?

My brother loved this book, so it will be interesting to see a movie about it.
There is a older Beowulf movie too . . . can't remember what year, actors, ect . . .

we read excerpts from it in english, and i liked it alot, i hope this new movie is good, my english teacher said that the previous movie was horrible

If this movie does come out, I wanna see it. The old one is good for laughs.

Oh, by the way, the 13th warrior is loosely based on beowulf, but is primarilly based on Eaters of the Dead. An AWESOME book. Chrichton might have based it on beowulf though.

Yea the older movie was bad, we turned it off in the first few minutes of it and returned it to the rental store . . .

Britomart wrote:Yo all! I just found out that they are trying to make a Beowulf movie, and it's filming right now! I just read that story for the first time a couple of days ago and I thought it was SO COOl! I'm just really into that kind of thing, and I can't wait to find out more about it!
Ok, so I just found out, again, that their is a really lousy version of Beowulf, and some other people are just trying to remake it. sorry

I hope they do it right. I loved the story but thats still no gaurantee that its gonna be a good movie.

But heres hopin .