Krull

Krull (1983)

Timing: 2:1 (121 min)

6.046/10
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Release date

1983-07-29

Country

Spain, United Kingdom, Italy, United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Barclays Mercantile Industrial Finance

Genre

Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Budget

$27 000 000

Revenue

$16 916 617

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Director

Peter Yates

Actors

Ken Marshall, Lysette Anthony, Freddie Jones, Francesca Annis, Alun Armstrong, David Battley, Bernard Bresslaw, Liam Neeson, John Welsh, Graham McGrath
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Scenario

Producer

Geoffrey Helman, Ron Silverman, Ted Mann

Operator

Peter Suschitzky

Composer

James Horner

Artist

Audition

Patsy Pollock

Editing

Ray Lovejoy
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• The film was one of the most expensive films of its time.
• The Cyclops states that the fiery mares can run a thousand leagues a day. A league was defined as the distance a heavily armed man could walk in an hour, typically 3-4 miles (4-7 kilometers). This means that the fiery mares could cover around 3500 miles (5000 km) a day at an average speed of about 145 miles per hour (250 km/h).
• The film was inspired by «Krull» (1983).
• Twenty-three sets were built for filming.
• To prepare for his role as Prince Colwyn, Ken Marshall practiced sports such as horseback riding, fencing, and boxing constantly even before filming began.
• Sixteen Clydesdale horses were trained for several months for the role of the fire mares.
• The dubbing for the death screams of the «Slayers» was taken from «Journey to the Center of the Earth» (1976).
• The makeup for "Widow's Web" consisted of 23 elements.
• Filming took place over four weeks in Pinewood Studios' largest soundstage. It took over five months to transform it into a terrifying swampy landscape with jagged trees and bubbling pools. The special effects department created extremely realistic quicksand, in which up to twenty unfortunate technicians found themselves at one time or another. Director Peter Yates had to balance on a raft floating in one of the pools to see the entire set. To film particularly difficult shots, the cameraman in a wetsuit submerged himself in the "quicksand" or the pool.