Directed by:
Jon Einarsson GustafssonComposer:
Hilmar Örn HilmarssonCast:
Gerard Butler, Sturla Gunnarsson, Sarah Polley, Stellan Skarsgård, Daniel Parker, Andrew Rai Berzins, Eric Jordan, Paul StephensPlots(1)
This entertaining documentary tells the dramatic story behind the making of the epic movie Beowulf & Grendel, starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley and Ingvar Sigurdsson. When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson and his cast and crew, including Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgård, set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel in 2004, they expected the usual complications involved in making a major motion picture. What they encountered was a ruthless Icelandic winter on a foreboding landscape, financing complications and a bizarre run of bad luck that led some of them to believe they were in an epic battle with the Norse gods themselves. Filmmaker Jon Gustafsson was along for the ride. Hired to play one of Beowulf's warriors, he's one set with his camera as the crew battles hurricane force winds and he's in the backroom as the producers scramble to shore up a collapsing deal, creating an intimate portrait of filmmakers fighting the odds in pursuit of a vision. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Gerard Butler
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Sarah Polley
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Daniel Parker
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