Warner Brothers is developing a film based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Newcomer Matthew Sand will write the script for the film version of the story, about a knight who takes up the sword against a monster.
The eighth-century tale centers on Beowulf of the Geats, who is called to slay Grendel, a monster that is attacking a Danish kingdom. The poem is known to have been an influence on J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, the trade paper reported. —Beowulf Goes To Movies (SciFiWire)
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For the Old English scholars out there… does “weblog” count as a kenning?
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Beowulf is “about a knight who takes up the sword against a monster” in the same way that Star Wars is about a young man who comes home to find that his aunt and uncle have been killed.
Well said, George!
Yay!!!