The test audiences could have been spot-on in their assessment that the original version was crap but I for one would love to see a restored version.Īfter all was said and done, the flick cost about $105 million and grossed under $35m domestic. Though I think the theatrical version is an entertaining and somewhat underrated flick, I'd love to see what McTiernan could do given free rein on a Director's Cut. Graeme Revell's long-standing score was one of the things jettisoned after some disastrous test screenings, and his music was replaced by a mediocre Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack. The story of The 13th Warrior (1999) comes from Michael Crichtons. Oddly enough The Thomas Crown Affair managed to beat this one to the multiplexes! And The 13th Warrior was basically ignored by moviegoers. Michael Crichtons The 13th Warrior and Beowulf and Beowulf A brief analysis and comparison with introduction to the epic poem for movie viewers by Russell Bateman September 1999 Beowulf is an Old English epic of almost thirty-two hundred lines in alliterative verse. Good Viking Adventure - Couldve Been Great.

Something about how raw the Northmens style of living and how they faced conflict fascinated me. ( Eaters of the Dead, the title of the Crichton book on which the film was based, would have been a much cooler title, too!) In The 13th Warrior, a long-shelved and retooled adaptation of Michael Crichton's charmingly titled Eaters Of The Dead, Antonio Banderas stars as a cultured 10th-century Baghdad poet given an. Ive watched the 13th warrior dozens of times in my lifetime. When he wrote 'Eaters of the Dead' in 1976, bestselling 'Jurassic Park' novelist Michael Crichton obviously had 'Beowulf' on his brain. McTiernan had to bail on it to start production on The Thomas Crown Affair so novelist/director Michael Crichton took over. Derived from producer Michael Crichton's grisly novel 'Eaters of the Dead,' 'The Thirteen Warrior' emerges as a larger-than-life epic that should enthrall guys.

I kinda dig this movie even though it's a mess.

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