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Film notoriety awaits Beowulf

Not one, but two versions of Beowulf are on the way. The first is described as, "a $12m co-production from Britain, Canada and Iceland, starring the Scots actor Gerard Butler. Filmed in Iceland, it is described by its producers as a 'spiritual film'." Are we talking spiritual, like The Snuffing of the CHrist, with all the blood & gore & stuff? More likely it's spiritual as in it takes itself too damned seriously.

The other choice, though, really made me cringe.

The second film, Beowulf, is a $70m Hollywood production financed by the American millionaire Steve Bing and Sony Pictures. Its director is Robert Zemeckis, whose crew will use the stop-motion technology recently employed in the children's film The Polar Express.

Beowulf is no children's film, however. The script, co-written by Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino's collaborator on Pulp Fiction, has been described as "... a sort of dark-ages Trainspotting [as in the film], filled with mead and blood and madness".

Okay, the mead & blood & madness part -- that's groovy. But stop motion photography a la The Polar Express? Let's forget a thin story, the graphics on that movie were just horrid. The characters looked like mannequins with dead eyes. Woody from A Toy Story -- a figure who really WAS wooden -- was more believably alive than anything in PE. And, for the love of Harryhausen, don't tell me that means Tom Hanks is going to play Beowulf AND Grendel.

I might have to go out & grab my speauh and magic heuhmut.