That was bad enough, but then, once production wrapped, came the screenings and reactions from test audiences that prompted Scott, who later confessed he reacted too quickly, to cut the film and so the studio released two versions (four would eventually become available to the public). Like many of Scott’s films, the production had setbacks, most notably when, with only ten days left to shoot, the 007 Stage burned down, destroying the forest set (fortunately, no human lives were lost). And Tim Curry, best known at that time for his memorable performance in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, is the Lord of Darkness. Mia Sara, at only 15-years-old and in her film debut, is Princess Lily (depending on which version – see below). Cruise was just off Risky Business and All the Right Moves, two years away from Top Gun and poised to become an international superstar.
Shooting began in Mawith Tom Cruise cast as Jack, once the miller but now a forest dweller who can communicate with animals. It became its own ecosystem that was so loud during filming, every line spoken on set had to be dubbed in post-production. Trees were made to scale, carved of polystyrene and painted, while a brook and a pond were built as well, where real plants and ferns were grown. Production moved to the famed Pinewoods Studios 007 Stage near London, and a massive forest was constructed within, populated with real animals and birds that actually came to live there. The miller dives in but at the very moment he is beneath the surface, Darkness has his minions slay a magical unicorn, the holder of light, which freezes the world and traps the boy beneath the ice.Īs revisions were being made, Scott was thinking of locations and travelled to Yosemite National Park, a forest of redwoods and fir trees that provided the perfect setting for the tale, but proved impossible to shoot due to the lack of light. Revisions slashed much of the grand size and narrowed it down to the core elements of Hjortsberg’s plot where a miller loved a princess who challenged suitors by tossing her ring into a deep pool of water and tasking them with retrieving it.
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He delivered an epic script that rivaled Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series in scale and premise, but was, at the time, un-filmable with a cast of hundreds of thousands. He contacted William Hjortsberg, a writer and screenwriter to come up with a fable-like story, something, it turns out, he was already working on. In 1977, while filming his first major motion picture, The Duelist, Ridley Scott struck upon the idea for a mythological story and turned to the Brothers Grimm for inspiration, finally developing an idea about a young hermit who evolves into a great hero in battling the Lord of Darkness, thus saving the world from an eternal winter.
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