Beowulf (2007)
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Studios/ Distributors: Paramount Pictures / Warner Brothers
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Language: English
Country: USA
Genre: Motion capture film
Rating:
Running Time: 1 hour 55 minutes
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Producers: Robert Zemeckis and Steve Bing
Written By: Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary
Music: Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Robert Presley
Editing By: Jeremiah O'Driscoll
Budget: US$150 million
Cast
Actors
- Ray Winstone - Beowulf
- Brendan Gleeson - Wiglaf
- Anthony Hopkins - King Hrothgar
- John Malkovich - Unferth
- Crispin Glover - Grendel
- Greg Ellis - Garmund
- Tyler Steelman - Cain
- Dominic Keating - adult Cain
- Costas Mandylor - Hondshew
- Sebastian Roche - Wulfgar
Actresses
- Angelina Jolie - Grendel's mother
- Robin Wright Penn - Queen Wealtheow
- Alison Lohman - Ursula
- Charlotte Salt - Estrith
Plot
King Hrothgar has constructed a new mead hall, Heorot. The noisy celebration at the hall disturbs the deformed monster Grendel, who is pained by the noise even from miles away on the high moors. He attacks the hall, killing many of the men inside. Hrothgar challenges Grendel to fight him instead, but the monster, after quietly staring at Hrothgar for a few moments, runs screaming off into the night. Back at his lair, Grendel is admonished by his (unseen) mother for attacking the humans and possibly inviting retribution. She calms down after Grendel tells her that he did not harm Hrothgar. The following morning, Hrothgar closes Heorot and proclaims that he will give half the gold in the kingdom to any man who can defeat Grendel. Soon Beowulf and his men arrive by ship from Geatland, and Beowulf offers to destroy Grendel. He convinces Hrothgar to reopen Heorot and let Beowulf's men stay there. Unferth, the King's advisor, challenges Beowulf's credibility. The warrior tells a tall tale of how he slew several sea serpents, and is capable of slaying Grendel too. Hrothgar offers Beowulf his precious golden drinking horn taken from the dragon Fafnir as a reward for Grendel's death.
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