Beowulf: The Movie

(Recent Developments on the Upcoming Movie)

December 26, 1998: Pre-production has been finished and filming has begun. Exlusively for our site ILM generated a picture of the Germanic burial ship used in the movie. Click here to view the photo.
October 2, 1998: There is a great disturbance in the force. Director Steven Cameron finally set the opening date for the long-planned screen adaptation of the Old-English epic Beowulf. The movie will open next Memorial Day weekend. This forced George Lucas to move the opening of his new movie Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace to 4th of July weekend.
September 25, 1998: Motion Picture Association of America announced that Beowulf: The Movie will be given NC-17 (No Children Under 17 Admitted) rating for explicit scenes of fighting between Beowulf and Grendel's Mother and for extremely vulgar dialogs of the Dragon, voiced by Joe Pesci.
June 5, 1998: Most of the major roles have been casted. Here is a run down:

Favio as BeowulfFabio
As
Beowulf

 DeVito as HrothgarDanny DeVito
As
Hrothgar

DiCaprio as GrendelLeonardo DiCaprio
As
Grendel

 Moore as Grendel's MotherDemi Moore
As
Grendel's Mother

Spyro as the DragonSpyro the Dragon
As
The Dragon

 
Plus, special appearance by
Baby as NightmareDancing Baby
As
Beowulf's Haunting Nightmare

 

 

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