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Beowulf & Grendel is a 2005 Canadian-Icelandic fantasy adventure film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. It stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar , Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma.
Beowulf & Grendel: Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. With Hringur Ingvarsson, Spencer Wilding, Stellan Skarsgård, Ingvar Sigurdsson. In Denmark, during the 6th century, Danish king Hrothgar and his warriors kill a troll whose son, Grendel, vows revenge.
- (19K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Sturla Gunnarsson
- 2006-03-09
Beowulf: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Robin Wright, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Baker, John Bilezikjian. The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
- (175K)
- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Robert Zemeckis
- 2007-11-16
- Creating Grendel — Nick Dudman
- Makeup & Hair — Daniel Parker
- Iceland
- The Viking Ship – Islendingur
- The Mead Hall
“Working without relying on CGI made me think about what I used to do before I was running computer systems and what I used to do working with a makeup box on the side of a mountain,” says Nick Dudman, the award-winning prosthetics designer behind all the Harry Potter movies. “Anyone in my job would count Grendel in the same category as Frankenstei...
Complimenting the work of Nick Dudman was the brilliantly conceived effort of Daniel Parker in hair and makeup. Acknowledging that the Norsemen traveled not just to North America, but also to Russia and the Middle East, Parker took those influences as his starting point for designing the look of Beowulf and Hrothgar, shunning the cliché of horned h...
“You’d start every day with the grand vision, going full on, and then it became about surviving the day, surviving the scene, and by the end of the day, it was about just getting the shot. The shoot ran 47 days and Odin got drunk on quite a few of them.” – Director, Sturla Gunnarsson “It’s where I grew up; it was the place of my birth. Some of the ...
Standing in for Beowulf’s longship is the Islendingur (Translation: Icelander), a carefully crafted replica of a viking ship found in a Norwegian burial sit. The Islendingur has been in a warehouse/museum since 2000 when, as part of a celebration of the Vikings first landing in North America, it sailed to L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site i...
In the poem, the Mead Hall is the biggest in the land, constructed to glorify Hrothgar’s deeds. It is the thing that ultimately drives Grendel mad, tripping him over from being an angry troll to a murderous troll. The decision to build the 6thcentury Mead Hall was again based on the decision to use no CGI. “We built it on location, so we’d never ha...
Jul 7, 2006 · Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, a Canadian resident of Icelandic birth, this English-language version of the poem boils the classic text down into a generic action flick, complete with...
- Sturla Gunnarsson
Beowulf & Grendel is a 2005 Canadian-Icelandic fantasy adventure film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. It stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma. The screenplay was written by Andrew Rai Berzins.
Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Tony Curran and Eddie Marsan. Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson. Music by Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson. Available through Amazon.com.
