Genre:
Action/Adventure/Fantasy
Directed by:
Bryan Singer
Starring:
Nicholas Hoult, Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, John Kassir, Ewan McGregor
Release date:
Fri 22, Mar 2013
Jack the Giant Slayer (previously
titled Jack the Giant Killer) is a fantasy/ adventure film based on
the fairy tales "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Jack and the
Beanstalk". The film is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Nicholas Hoult,
Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor
with a screenplay written by Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie and Dan
Studney. The film tells the story of Jack, a young farmhand who must rescue a
princess from a race of giants after inadvertently opening a gateway to their world.
Development of Jack the Giant
Slayer began in January 2009 with the hiring of D. J. Caruso to direct film. By
August, Caruso was replaced by Singer, who hired McQuarrie to rework the script
in April 2010. The main characters were cast between February and March 2011,
and principal photography began in April 2011 in England with locations in
Somerset, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. Release of the film was moved back in
post production to allow more time for special effects and marketing.
Plot
In the Kingdom of Cloister, Jack, a
young farm boy, is fascinated by the legend of Erik, an ancient king who
defeated an army of invading giants from a realm in the sky by controlling them
with a magical crown. At the same time, Princess Isabelle becomes fascinated
with the same legend.
10 years later, Jack goes into town
to sell his horse to support his uncle's farm. There, Jack spots Isabelle and
develops a crush on her, after defending her honor from a group of thugs.
Meanwhile, Lord Roderick returns to his study, only to find that a monk has
robbed him. The monk offers Jack some magic beans he stole from Roderick as
collateral for Jack's horse. Back at the castle, Isabelle quarrels with her
father, King Brahmwell, as she wants to explore the kingdom, but he wants her
to stay and marry Roderick. Likewise, Jack's uncle scolds him for being foolish
before throwing the beans on the floor and leaving the house.
Determined to be free, Isabelle
sneaks out of the castle and seeks shelter from the rain in Jack's house. As it
rains, one of the beans takes root and grows into a massive beanstalk that
carries the house and Isabelle into the sky as Jack falls to the ground.
Jack, Roderick, and Roderick's
attendant, Wicke, volunteer to join the king's knights, led by Elmont and his
second in-command, Crawe, and climb the beanstalk in search of Isabelle. As
they climb, Roderick and Wicke cut the safety rope, intentionally killing some
of the knights. At the top, they discover the giants' realm and decide to split
into two groups; one with Jack, Elmont, and Crawe, and the other including
Roderick and Wicke, but not before Roderick forcibly takes the remaining beans
from Jack (although Jack manages to save one for himself).
Jack's group is trapped by a giant,
who takes everyone prisoner except Jack. Meanwhile, Roderick's group encounters
two other giants; one eats Wicke, but before they can do the same to Roderick,
Roderick dons the magic crown.
Jack follows the giant to their
stronghold, where the two-headed giant leader, Fallon, has killed Crawe. There,
Jack finds the imprisoned Isabelle and Elmont. As the giants prepare to kill
their remaining prisoners, Roderick walks in and enslaves the giants with the
crown. He tells the giants they will attack Cloister at dawn and allows them to
eat Isabelle and Elmont. Jack rescues Isabelle and Elmont as one of the giants
prepares to cook Elmont as a pig-in-a-blanket. The trio makes for the
beanstalk, where Jack causes the giant guarding the beanstalk to fall off the
realm's edge. Seeing the giant's body, Brahmwell orders the beanstalk cut down
to avoid an invasion by the giants.
Jack and Isabelle head down the
beanstalk, while Elmont stays to confront Roderick. Elmont kills Roderick, but
Fallon takes the crown before Elmont can claim it, and Elmont is forced to
escape down the beanstalk. Jack, Isabelle, and Elmont all survive the fall
after the beanstalk is cut down. As everyone returns home, Jack warns that the
giants are using Roderick's beans to create beanstalks to descend down to Earth
and attack Cloister.
The giants chase Jack, Isabelle,
and Brahmwell into the castle, where Elmont fills the moat with oil and sets it
on fire. Fallon falls in the moat and breaks into the castle from below. As the
siege continues, Fallon captures Jack and Isabelle, but Jack throws the final
bean down Fallon's throat, causing a beanstalk to rip apart his body. Jack
takes the crown and sends the giants back to their realm.
Jack and Isabelle marry and tell
the story of the giants to their children. As time passes, the magic crown is
crafted into St Edward's Crown and is secured in the Tower of London.
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References.
External links:
"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 06 April. 2013. Web. 06 April. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
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