A Visual Masterpiece
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Excalibur
Camelot_2000 — 10 years ago(January 21, 2016 11:18 PM)
I saw this movie not too long ago and did enjoy the look of it even though the story should've been better. This must be the best depiction of medieval England ever captured on film. It also has the best depiction ever of Merlin.
I read too that the director was originally going to do the
Lord Of The Rings
, but after the studio found it too expensive to finance, he turned to this project instead. Would have been interesting to see how LOTR would have came out under his direction. This was twenty years before Peter Jackson came out with his version.Come to Middle-Earth, a world beyond the furthest reaches of your imagination
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robert-552 — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 03:18 PM)
I read about John Boorman having invested time in that endeavor. If some things I've read were accurate, it would have been a weird and disappointing movie insofar as faithfulness is concerned. Here's some stuff:
http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=12786
Some of the following is redundant and some isn't in the previous link:
http://www.thetolkienforum.com/index.php?threads/john-boormans-70s-script.16196/ -
Camelot_2000 — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 10:04 PM)
Thanks so much for the links. It was extremely interesting reading it. Tolkien was satisfied with a live action version of LOTR. I wonder how he'd have felt seeing Peter Jackson's huge version of his work? He'd probably be astounded. I guess it was good that Boorman never got the chance to do LOTR. He was planning to put the whole story into one movie. That wouldn't have worked too well at all.
Come to Middle-Earth, a world beyond the furthest reaches of your imagination