The Beastmaster
Born with the courage of an eagle, the strength of a black tiger, and the power of a god.
The Beastmaster (1982)
Timing:
1:58 (118 min)
6.286/10
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6.65/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Budget
$8 000 000
Revenue
$14 056 528
Director
Actors
Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Rod Loomis, Ben Hammer, Ralph Strait, Billy Jayne, Janet Jones, Tony Epper
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Don Coscarelli, Paul Pepperman
Producer
Sylvio Tabet, Paul Pepperman, Sylvio Tabet, Nader Atassi
Operator
Composer
Lee Holdridge
Artist
Audition
Joe Reich
Editing
Roy Watts
All team (75)
All team (75)
Short description
Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals, which leads him on his quest for revenge against his father's killers.
What's left behind the scenes
- Eighteen-year-old Demi Moore, who had no prior acting experience, auditioned several times for the role of Kiri, Dar's friend. The director was very pleased with the results and was ready to offer her the role, but the producers preferred Tanya Roberts.
- Dar’s black tiger was actually an ordinary striped tiger painted black for filming. Every time the tiger drank water, the paint would run, and the stripes were clearly visible near its mouth in certain scenes.
- The trained eagle often refused to fly when needed, and to get the necessary shots of the bird in flight, it was dropped from a hatch of a hot air balloon lifted into the air.
- Despite not being a major box office hit, "Beastmaster" became one of the most popular and successful films in the history of cable television.
- Don Coscarelli, the director, producer, and originator of "Beastmaster," sold all rights to the film and its characters. As a result, he had no involvement whatsoever in subsequent sequels or the television series, and received no income from them.
- Producer Dino de Laurentiis was so impressed with the film that he invited Don Coscarelli to direct his next project, "Conan the Destroyer" (1984). The director declined the flattering offer, finding the proposed script simply terrible.
- The animal trainer initially hired was fired during filming and replaced with another.
- For safety reasons, the actor playing young Dar was prohibited from being on set at the same time as the tiger. A short stand-in wearing a special wig was used to film those scenes.
- Director Don Coscarelli was a big fan of writer Andre Norton's work as a boy, and her novel "Lord of the Beasts" served as the basis for the film.
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