Jack and the Giants
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jack and the Giants |
| Original title | Jack the Giant Slayer |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bryan Singer |
| script |
Darren Lemke , Christopher McQuarrie , Dan Studney |
| production |
Neal H. Moritz , David Dobkin , Bryan Singer, Patrick McCormick , Ori Marmur |
| music | John Ottman |
| camera | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| cut | John Ottman, Bob Ducsay |
| occupation | |
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Jack the Giant Killer (AKA Jack the Giant Slayer , originally Jack the Giant Killer ) is an American fantasy - adventure film from the year 2013 . Directed by Bryan Singer ; the script was written by Darren Lemke , Christopher McQuarrie and Dan Studney . The film is a modified in part retelling of the English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk (English Jack and the Beanstalk ), in which the farmer boy Jack inadvertently a portal has opened in the giant world and now the princess must free. It stars Nicholas Hoult , Eleanor Tomlinson , Stanley Tucci , Ian McShane , Bill Nighy , John Kassir and Ewan McGregor .
The film opened in US cinemas on March 1, 2013 and in German cinemas on March 14, 2013. It was performed in 2D and 3D.
action
The young Jack, a farmer's son in the Kingdom of Cloister, is fascinated by the ancient legend about King Erik, who with his magical crown was able to ward off the invasion of giants who came down to earth from their kingdom above the clouds via a gigantic beanstalk . Princess Isabelle, daughter of the current King Brahmwell, is also very impressed by this story.
Ten years later, Jack has grown into a young man. After his parents die, his uncle raises him. The latter instructs him to sell a horse and a team at the market in town. Here he meets Isabelle for the first time, who is watching a show of jugglers unrecognized in the crowd . When she is harassed by strange men, he stands protectively in front of her until Elmont, leader of the royal guard, appears and chases the men away.
Lord Roderick, adviser and treasurer of the king, has since discovered that he has been robbed. The thief, a monk , flees across the market square and offers Jack the stolen goods, a bag of supposedly magic beans, in exchange for his horse in order to escape. When Jack returns home, his uncle berates him for being ripped off and throws the beans away.
Meanwhile, Isabelle is arguing with her father, who wants to marry her to Lord Roderick, but she wants to ride out and explore the kingdom, but he forbids her. So she sneaks out of the castle in the evening and rides away, gets lost and finally looks for shelter outside at the edge of the forest in Jack's house. The onset of rain activates one of the magic beans, which in no time grows into a gigantic tendril and lifts Isabelle and her house up into the sky. Jack falls and remains unconscious.
When the king and his entourage arrive in search of his daughter, Jack signs up for a group of volunteers to climb up the vine and bring the princess back. Together with Elmont, his officer Crawe, Lord Roderick, his henchman Wicke and other knights of Elmont, he makes his way up. Halfway through, Vicke cuts the knight's safety rope, unnoticed by the others, causing them to fall to their death. When the rest of the group pushes through the clouds, they find themselves in the realm of the giants and realize that the legends about the legendary king Erik are true.
Before they split up into two groups, Jack is forced by Roderick to give him the remaining beans. However, Jack can withhold one of the beans unnoticed. On the way, Elmont and Crawe are captured by a giant. Jack can hide and follows the giant unnoticed to the giants' castle, where the other fiends also hang out. Its leader, the double-headed General Fallon, already has Princess Isabelle in his power and now wants to know from Elmont and Crawe how they made the way up. Crawe mocks Fallon and is eaten by him for it. In the meantime, Roderick and Wicke have also been picked up by a giant who bites off Wicke's head. Before he gets hold of Roderick, however, he pulls the magical crown of King Erik, believed to be lost, out of his pocket and thus forces the giants under his rule. He allows himself to be brought into the castle and reveals to the giants and prisoners present there that he wants to descend the tendril together with the giants in order to conquer the kingdom of Cloister and later the whole world, with himself as king at the top.
Isabelle and Elmont are supposed to be prepared as sausages in a dressing gown, but Jack, who has watched everything, can kill the cook and free them. They make their way to the beanstalk, which is guarded by a giant. A swarm of bees in his helmet can throw him off balance so that he falls into the depths. When he hits the ground with the waiting King Brahmwell and his entourage, the king realizes the danger and orders the tendril to be felled in order to block the giants' way to earth, although this would sacrifice his daughter. Meanwhile, Jack and Isabelle climb down the vine, while Elmont stays behind to stop Roderick. When Roderick and the giants appear on the vine to climb down, Elmont confronts and kills the traitor Roderick, but the magical crown falls into Fallon's hands, who now takes control of the giants. Elmont also has to flee down the vine, which is collapsing in the meantime, but both Jack and Isabelle and Elmont survive the fall to earth unharmed.
The tendril is destroyed, but Fallon finds the remaining magic beans at Roderick's and lets new tendrils grow down to the earth, with which the army of giants descends. King Brahmwell barricades himself with his entourage in his castle. For a while Elmont and his men were able to repel the attack of the giants. Fallon falls into the moat and now penetrates the castle from below through the sewage system. Here it comes to a fight with Jack and Isabelle, in the course of which Jack throws the last remaining bean into Fallon's throat, where it is activated and the fast-growing vine literally tears Fallon apart. Jack, who takes King Erik's magical crown, can use it to stop the giants and force them to retreat back to their realm above the clouds.
Jack and Isabelle get married and eventually tell the story to their children. The magic crown, on the other hand, is hidden in a secret location, remodeled over the years and finally kept as Edward's crown in the Tower of London .
production
Development of the feature film began in January 2009 when DJ Caruso was hired to direct the film. In August Caruso was replaced by Singer, who in turn commissioned McQuarrie in April 2010 to revise the script. The main roles were cast in February and March 2011. Shooting begins in April 2011 was in the UK with three locations in the English Somerset , Gloucestershire and Norfolk . As post-production for special effects and marketing took longer, the release date was postponed. In October 2012, Warner Bros. set the definitive release date for the United States on March 1, 2013, and at the same time renamed the film from Jack the Giant Killer to Jack the Giant Slayer .
Also in 2013, the production company The Asylum released the mockbuster Jack the Giant Killer .
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Jan. Odle on behalf of the FFS Film & TV sync in Munich .
| role | Actor / original speaker |
Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jack | Nicholas Hoult | Tim Schwarzmaier |
| Isabelle | Eleanor Tomlinson | Maren Rainer |
| Elmont | Ewan McGregor | Philipp Moog |
| Lord Roderick | Stanley Tucci | Lutz Mackensy |
| Crawe | Eddie Marsan | Andreas Borcherding |
| Vetch | Ewen Bremner | Benedikt Weber |
| King Brahmwell | Ian McShane | Erich Ludwig |
| uncle | Christopher Fairbank | Dieter Memel |
| General Entin | Ralph Brown | Walter von Hauff |
| Old Hamm | Warwick Davies | Kai Taschner |
| General Fallon (big head) | Bill Nighy (voice) | Frank Glaubrecht |
| General Fallon (small head) | John Kassir (voice) | Gudo Hoegel |
| Soon | Mingus Johnston | Jan Odle |
| Isabelle (young) | Sydney Rawson | Nele Facklam |
| Queen mother | Tandi Wright | Petra Einhoff |
| monk | Simon Lowe | Philipp Brammer |
| Museum guide | Alex Macqueen | Hans-Georg Panczak |
| Fo | Angus Barnett (voice) | Thomas Rauscher |
| Fumm | Ben Daniels (voice) | Matti Klemm |
| Fye | Andrew Brooke (voice) | Ekkehardt Belle |
| Chef of the Giants | Philip Philmar (voice) | Claus Brockmeyer |
reception
criticism
The film was received in two ways by critics. Currently (June 5, 2013) the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes has a 52 percent rating out of 182 reviews.
Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "If you simply look at the efficient narrative style, the clear flow and the consistent involvement of the audience, Jack is clearly superior to the recently run Hobbit ." Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: " Jack and the Giants is an exciting, original and thoroughly entertaining adventure. "
In contrast, Justin Chang from Variety magazine said: “When you satisfy your renewed appetite for revisionist screen fantasies [...] Jack and the Giants feels - unsurprisingly - like trying to capitalize on the trend, again unearthed fairy tale characters, situations and To show fight scenes with a mechanical and tiresome predictable effect. ” Manohla Dargis of The New York Times rated it similarly:“ At the end of the day, this is just a digitally inflated one-dimensional version of Jack and the Beanstalk . ” Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Bryan Singer's version of the old fairy tale has everything any money can buy but a good script".
The German film magazine cinema judged cautiously positive: "Opulent and action-packed fantasy fairy tale in traditional style"
Grossing results
Jack and the Giants was able to occupy the top spot in the US cinema charts on the opening weekend. With a gross profit of almost 28 million US dollars on the opening weekend, the commercial success of the almost 195 million dollars (almost 150 million euros) production was rather disappointing. In addition to the production costs, there are more than 100 million US dollars for marketing (about 75 million euros).
On April 12, 2013, d. H. Four weeks after its theatrical release, The Hollywood Reporter magazine reported that the film could cost between $ 125 million and $ 140 million (93.7-105 million euros) in losses on the combined film production and marketing costs. The film was predicted to have grossed around $ 200 million by the time the theatrical phase was over. On June 9, 2013, the worldwide box office totaled 197,671,860 US dollars (about 148.2 million euros).
Web links
- Official page for the film
- Jack the Giant Killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jack and the Giants at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pamela McClintock: Warner Bros. Takes 'Arthur & Lancelot' Off Calendar, Pushes 'Giant Killer' to 2013 . In: The Hollywood Reporter . January 19, 2012. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012. Retrieved on January 20, 2012.
- ↑ The Deadline Team: WB's Retitled 'Jack The Giant Slayer' Now Opens March 1, 2013 . In: Deadline.com . October 17, 2012. Archived from the original on October 18, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
- ↑ synchronkartei.de: Jack and the Giants. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Jack and the Giants on Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Todd McCarthy: Jack the Giant Slayer: Film Review . In: The Hollywood Reporter . February 26, 2013. Archived from the original on February 28, 2013. Retrieved on February 27, 2013.
- ^ Richard Roeper: Jack the Giant Slayer . In: Chicago Sun-Times . February 27, 2013. Archived from the original on February 28, 2013. Retrieved on February 28, 2013.
- ↑ Justin Chang: Jack the Giant Slayer . In: Variety . February 26, 2013. Archived from the original on February 28, 2013. Retrieved on February 27, 2013.
- ↑ Manohla Dargis: A Mighty Beanstalk Grows a New Twist . In: The New York Times . February 28, 2013. Archived from the original on March 1, 2013. Retrieved on February 28, 2013.
- ↑ Kenneth Turan: Review: Nothing magic about 'Jack the Giant Slayer' . In: Los Angeles Times . February 28, 2013. Archived from the original on March 1, 2013. Retrieved on February 28, 2013.
- ↑ Jack and the Giants . In: cinema . Retrieved March 21, 2013.
- ↑ Disastrous US theatrical release for "Jack and the Giants". In: DiePresse.com. March 4, 2013, accessed January 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Pamela McClintock: 'Jack the Giant Slayer' Could Lose up to $ 140 Million for Warner Bros., Legendary . In: The Hollywood Reporter . April 3, 2013. Retrieved April 3, 2013.
- ↑ Jack the Giant Slayer . Box Office Mojo . Retrieved June 13, 2013.