Everything about Beowulf is extreme: The legend itself, the old-English bane of high school and college students, which turns humans into gods and heroes. And now, the film, which takes that legend and twists it into an immersive, stereo-3D reality where human-powered animated characters become fallible heroes who fight strangely sympathetic monsters, and slay golden dragons.
Sony Pictures Imageworks created the bawdy epic under Robert Zemeckis’s direction for Warner Bros, which reportedly poured US$70 million into the production. People will make comparisons to 300, a now legendary film about other historical heroes who fight naked battles, but of course, Zemeckis cast Beowulf’s stylized characters from an entirely different mold.
It was a pleasure working on this flick with IMAX in toronto. What a major leap for 3D at the movies!
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