Krull

Krull is a 1983 British film directed by Peter Yates and starring Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony and Liam Neeson.

The film is based on an original screenplay by Stanford Sherman and was one of the most expensive films (ca. 27 million dollars) of his time. Criticism and public, however, were not impressed and the movie flopped at the box office (total revenue 16.5 million dollars). Nowadays the film seen as a cult film. ==Story[ Edit] == The population of the planet Krull is facing a peculiar spaceship, the black fortress, in the form of a mountain. The ship belongs to an evil being known as ' the beast '.Together with a group of murderers, the Slaughterers, terrorizes the Beast the planet. Because the black fortress can move independently, it is almost impossible to know where the headquarters of the beast will find itself.

Krull has always been divided into two kingdoms who lived at odds with each other for centuries. The coming of the beast and are Slaughterers forces the kingdoms, however, to work together. Strengthen the band marries Prince Colwyn from one Kingdom with Princess Lyssa of the other. It is hoped that the combined armies of both realms in order to be able to withstand the beast. This hope is based on the prophecy that the future child of Princess Lyssa will govern the universe.

If it hears the beast of the prediction he lets his castle of King Eirig Slaughterers, the father of Lyssa, attacks. The Castle and the King is killed after his army is defeated.Enter the Slaughterers Princess Lyssa In triumph with him to the black fortress. The only one who survived the massacre of the army of Eirig is Prince Colwyn. He swears revenge and promises to bring Chris back.

He gets Board of Ynyr the older that him says the first to find the sword. The Sword is an ancient sword in form of a star with sharpened tips, that Colwyn found in a cave high in the mountains. The next step is to find the black fortress that every day at Sunrise telepathically travels to a new location. He gets help from a remarkable group of men: the somewhat failed magician Ergo, the Cyclops Rell, and a group of criminals, who are fleeing the law, led by Torguil. Colwyn promises them freedom if they help him.

To find the black fortress to see Colwyn, the Emerald Seer, a blind Prophet and his young apprentice Titch. To locate the fort as the Prophet knows he is killed by the beast before he can say something. Then decides to consult to the Black Widow Ynyr. The widow is actually a sorceress and former lover of Ynyr. After they had killed their only child Ynyr exiled her to the Lair of a giant spider. All these years she could protect itself against the spider using the sand from an enchanted hourglass. To Ynyr reveals the black widow where the black fortress will be the next sunrise. In order to protect against the spin she gives him Ynyr the sands of the hourglass with it. To achieve and can just about know Colwyn Ynyr the information before the sand runs out and he dies.

Using the flying Fire mares know Colwyn and his gang the black fortress on time to reach. They are attacked by the Slaughterers who kill men one of Colwyns. The Cyclops Rell knows, however, with its huge force the giant Fort to keep the doors open long enough to let to Colwyns group. If the doors are slamming Rell is crushed.

Once inside touches Colwyn separated from his men. Some is killed by the Slaughterers and others get caught in all kinds of traps. It comes up on Colwyn and he knows to injure the beast with the Sword. Frees he wants with her fast ISA flights, but the beast is not yet dead. Then used the sacred flame that Lyssa she received at her wedding with Colwyn. The fire kills the beast, but his death also does the black fortress fall apart.Colwyn and Lyssa liberate the remaining men of his gang and together they flee from the Fort. Lyssa and Colwyn are the new rulers of Krull and their child will ever rule the universe. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the late 1970s, there was a boom in the early 1970s films in which the age-old fairy tale of Prince-rescues-Princess revisited in the form of science fiction and fantasy films such as Star Wars (1977), Return of the Jedi(1983), Excalibur (1981), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and Conan the Barbarian (1982). The originators of the Krull tried a piece of the revenue to pick up one of your own space fairy tale to come up with.However, many had against Krull . The main characters Ken Marshall and Lysette Anthony were unknown to the general public, the name of the movie was a joke and the scenario had plot holes the size of a black hole.For example, it is not clear why the child by Colwyn to govern the universe later. It is also unclear why Colwyn with a group of derelicts behind the beast is concerned, while it is in principle can have the combined armies of two kingdoms. Columbia Pictures, which saw the temper probably, decided at the last minute to leave the British vote again by Americans. So was actress Lysette Anthony in her debut saddled with the voice of actress Lindsay Crouse and was dubbed the character role of Robbie Coltrane by Michael Elphick. The film was expensive, but when come true already dated, effects and the great monster of the film, the beast, was actually little scary to see. One of the big gimmicks from the film, the Sword, a sword that formed like a star like a boomerang flies through the air worked previously on the laugh muscles than being a status as, for example, Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur. The film is not pure fantasy movie, but also no real science fiction film. It aims at both markets by the fortress of the beast by letting go as a space ship, but the decoration to make weapons and medieval. The film was great and there were 23 sets built on the Pinewood Studiosin the UK James Bondset. Furthermore, was filmed in Black Park Country Park, Wexham, Buckinghamshire, on Campo Imperatore, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Belluno, in Italy and at Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. At the release, however, the public was mercilessly and Krull flopped. The film had cost 27 million and there came only 16 million within.