Reign
Of Fire Release Date U.S. : July 12th 2002
Expected Release Date U.K. :
Not Yet Known
Expected Rental Release Date :
Not Yet Known
Reign
Of Fire Cast : Matthew
McConaughey (Denton Van Zan 'Dragonslayer'), Christian
Bale (Quinn Abercromby), Izabella Scorupco (Alex), Gerard
Butler (Creedy), Alexander Siddiq (Ajay)
Director : Rob Bowman
Written By : Greg Chabot,
Matt Greenberg, Zak Penn, Kevin Peterka
Producers :Gary
Barber (producer) ,Roger Birnbaum (producer),
Ned Dowd (executive producer) , Jonathan Glickman (co-producer)
, Dean Zanuck (co-producer) ' Lili Fini Zanuck (producer)
,
Richard D.Zanuck (producer)
Other Known Crew Members : Adrian
Biddle (Cinematographer) |
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Reign
Of Fire Based On :
Premise/Synopsis : Dragons
come back to life in a post apocalyptic setting and a team
of 'fire-fighters' set out to hunt the Queen of the Dragons.
Genre
: Action
Official
Site : ReignofFire.com
Fan Sites :
Trailer
: At
The Official Website | Clip
Released By : Touchstone (Spyglass Entertainment)
Status
: Post Production
How
excited are we about Reign Of Fire : 9 Out Of 10
Have you information or found a scoop on Reign Of Fire
? Email us now!
Latest
updates
4th
May 2002: Reign Of Fire Updated:
CineCon
have posted a clip from Reign Of Fire, an exclusive on their
website. it is in Quicktime, so you'll need that too. Go on
over to Cinema
Confidential to check it out.
22/4/02
The fantastic trailer for post apocalyptic
fantasy movie Reign Of Fire has finally hit the web. The promo
is available in three formats, Real, Windows Media and Quicktime
over at the official website. Follow
this link. Also, the first promo poster has also been
posted, of which you can see at the very top of this page.
16/4/02
An update on Reign Of Fire. First of all, Showbiz
Ireland have posted some of the actual storyboards from
the film over at their website. They appeared over there last
year, but somehow they slipped through the net. Sorry about
that. Anyway,
take a look. You also may want to check out the official
site of the movie, which has loads of content including
synopsis, images from the movie and a promise of a trailer
'coming soon', so keep checking the page to see when it goes
online. Rumour has it that you'll be able to see the full
trailer in cinemas with The Scorpion King this weekend! I'll
let you know for sure on that as soon as I can.
The surprising thing about the official site is that it doesn't
show us any of the dragons that feature in the movie. But
don't fear, as director Rob Bowman has been describing them
to SciFi
Wire,
"I did not want to make the dragon from Dragonheart,
which was a large body, small wingspan and had to flap like
mad to stay in the air," Bowman said in an interview.
"Mine have big, giant wingspans like an eagle, but take
a king cobra and put it down the center." Go to Sci
Fi for the rest of the interview.
The release date for the film has now been set as July 12th
2002 (US).
Previous updates: Reign Of Fire
is going to be quite a mixture of genres as it is mixing in
Dragons which usually firmly reside in a timeless fantasy
world with a post apocalyptic setting. Its set in England
in the year 2018 where Dragons have came out of hiding to
rule the world.
Matthew
Mcconaughey plays a militia leader called Dragonslayer. Christian
Bale's character is what is known as a 'fire chief' , Bale's
characters mother was killed by a Dragon. Bale and McConaughey
team up in this movie to seek out The Queen of the Dragons.
Izabella Scorupco is playing a pilot/scientist in the movie
and her role will also entail her being Bale's love interest.
bale's character is English in the movie but McConaughey's
is American. It's not known yet if this is just to save problems
with accents or if it is a plot detail.
Interestingly
McConaughey is playing his role with a shaved head in Reign
Of Fire. Also signed up for a role is Alexander Siddiq (Deep
Space Nine) who will play the best friend of the lead character
and is half pakistani/half english.
Directing
Reign Of Fire is Rob Bowman whose most recent directorial
outing was for the X-Files movie.
Spyglass
Entertainment have been developing this movie for quite a
while as they bought the script for Reign Of Fire back in
1996.In fact rumours circulated that Arnold Schwarzenneger
was up for a part in Reign Of Fire at one point, but commitments
such as Terminator 3 put paid to that rumour.
Also
rumoured for a part in Reign Of Fire has been Jamie Bell,
who most of you will remember as Billy Elliott. The part he
was rumoured for was as Bale's little brother, this may just
be speculation as the role didn't exist in the script. It
turned out he wasn't apparently allowed more time off school
to take the role anyway!
Filming
has mainly been in Ireland, considering teh movie is based
in England it was probably filmed in Ireland due to the tax
breaks that the Irish government gives for filming compared
with what the British government gives. There's also rumours
of some filming to be done in North Africa, we'll keep you
posted on that rumour.
You
can find a review of the script by the amazing scooper Stax
over at Filmforce.
Stax is quite positive about the movie as it appears to be
putting a spin on some well worn themes.
A
Scooper for Coming Attractions spoke to Matthew Mcconaughey
and got loads of information out of him about the movie, such
as ; there will be hand to dragon fighting, most of the world
has been decimated by the dragons, fighting is guerilla warfare,the
dragons don't speak and most of the dragons appearances will
be CG. Coming Attractions also have loads of on set pictures
which you can see here
More
news on Reign Of Fire as we get it!
Date
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