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Of Drew Dielsch | Updated 2 weeks ago

Hey, everyone, he again drew dietsch here for a giant Freakin robot, and this time I dedicate myself to talking about something I like that I never emphasized before: Dragons!

Since I read The hobbit And I saw the animated adaptation of 1977 (still my favorite version of Smaug), I have fallen in love with these fierce great creatures.

So much so I even looked The flight of the dragonsWhere John Ritter uses logic to defeat a multi-head dragon dragon expressed by Darth Vader.

And my generation was ready to get Dragon’s fever thanks to blockbuster production Dragonheart being a success.

But before the Dragon Market was monopolized by HBO, there was another dragon movie that excited my youth.

And this seemed to be the best serious representation of the dragons in an important film to this moment.

But this movie was not close to the success of Dragonheart And it is still a favorite of the worship at best.

We will go through the ashes to know why Reign of fire failed.

Like many original concept stories, Reign of fire It existed as a script for years before it became production.

The key concept of the story is that dragons have been hidden under the earth and premiere at the beginning of the film.

This leads to the mass slaughter of humans to the point of a post-apocalyptic society.

The main story is a surviving community hiding from the dragons. When a wandering warrior enters this community, they end up fighting the burning monsters.

So here is an initial theory and, of course, a low impact on why audiences did not align Reign of fireBut it is a point that I think talks about how to sell an audience in an idea can be more nuanced than it seems initially.

Look at the Reign of fire Posters.

You see dragons burning the landscape of London, as did the Big Ben and the Westminster Palace.

This is to sell a Dragonpocalypse movie similar to something Day of Independence. “Come and see dragons (instead of aliens) destroy the world!”

But if you look at the real footage of Reign of fire If what they used for the trailer was fixed, this idea does not seem to be what the film represents.

Instead of chaotic glee like Roland Emmanich, Reign of fire It seems to be a very direct and serious face of dragons against humans.

And that’s the movie.

It’s not a movie about dragons that destroy the world. Reign of fire It is actually a movie about a world already destroyed by dragons. This is where most of the plot occurs.

He probably did not look attractive to some spectators from the beginning who wanted to watch a Dragonpocalypse movie that resembled an exciting disaster.

You know, already Tacir But with dragons. And that doesn’t Reign of fire.

When I was in front of the cameras, Reign of fire had X-Files Director Rob Bowman at the helm.

Bowman had not only been a prominent director for many key episodes of The files x Television series, but was also the director of the first feature film of the franchise.

And as he did with The files xBowman wanted to base a supernatural story in a sense of realism.

Given this in mind, Reign of fire It ends up looking good if your artistic goal is to create a desperate and desperate world that has almost been forgotten.

Unfortunately, with a concept as great and daring as “dragons are real and exist in a modern environment”, there were also audiences who did not buy in this concept.

Understand, I think this has more to do with the overall feeling of time than any lasting problem Reign of fire.

Pop culture had just lived a fantastic revival with the first Harry Potter movie and the first Lord of the rings Movie, both historical hits and films that would win their place as genre classics.

Reign of fire Released a few months after these films and he came public in an idea of classic, modern and founded fantasy.

Tried to do it at a time when classic fantasy elements Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings They were hugged by a wide audience and finding their home in pop culture.

Basically it was the wrong time to incorporate people Reign of fireThe artistic dam. Today, this is probably an idea that could work thanks to a post-game landscape of thunder that allow less fantasy riffs to fantasy.

Did not help Reign of fire It lacked star power during the time.

Matthew McConaughey gets the first turnover, but his American warrior is a support character at best. And although he certainly had a cache, he was not a bank star in 2002.

Even less noteworthy of the weather was Christian Bale. Although he had definitely had a rupture role American psychoHe still did not have to give his head and cowl and become a home name.

Look, I like it Newsies As much as you do, but Christian Bale was not a name that came to the family at the driving that weekend in 2002.

The same goes for Gerard Butler, whom people may have recognized at that time, I don’t know, Dracula 2000 If there is anything?

So we have a Dragonpocalypse movie where we do not see that Dragonpocalypse passes, a realistic dam of dragons during a time when classical fantasy is in a peak of pop culture and a cast that does not yet have to make its larger brands in the world of interpretation.

Add –Hoon Reign of fire Releasing during the second week of a long -awaited sequel, Men in black IIAs well as very mixed reviews and you have a recipe for a $ 60 million effect effects that opened at number three with $ 15.6 million.

Reign of fire Could only overcome the initial weekend of the Halloween Movie where Busta Rhymes uses Kung Fu in Michael Myers.

At least lost the number two site to a great comic book, Road to PerdationOne of my five best favorite films from Tom Hanks.

Now, if you want my opinion about Reign of fire As a movie, you can get the long version at the Episode of Genrevision Movie Club We made where we put it against Dragonheart.

But as I can applaud the effects of the dragon Reign of fireThe real movie is fine. It is not surprising or terrible and this does a little less interesting in general.

However, I will say that Reign of fire It is the type of movie that deserves another trait, either through a restart or a sequel/precaution.

I mean, Dragonheart I have four sequels! Four sequels! And I couldn’t tell you something about them! Except that they probably have dragons in them. Maybe one of the sequels has two dragons? Maybe these dragons are friends dragons or maybe they are not friends. I don’t know and I will never know.

But I know the idea of doing The Terminator But with dragons that destroy humanity instead of robot skeletons it sounds quite fresh.

Reign of fire He promised a movie that he did, but he did not deliver. There is still time to fulfill this promise.

And as it is, Reign of fire It is the type of movie that deserves a worship.

It is an ambitious and unique idea that was not entirely suitable for the time. It does not help that real production had to deal with an outbreak of illness, causing some scenes to be cut or rewritten out of necessity.

So I have some sympathy Reign of fire Also, being an unfairly committed shoot.

With any other intellectual property under the sun that was put through the reduction of content, why not give it Reign of fire Another attempt? Cannot be worse than the last Game of Thrones Season!

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