What Looks to be an Excellent Film Coming to TV

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FullerH

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Peter Morwood, who posts on SwordForum and NetSword wrote a screenplay, "The Ring of the Nibellungs". This is now due for showing on the SciFi Channel on April 27 of this year. It will be called "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King".

Please see the SciFi website on it: http://www.scifi.com/darkkingdom/

From the website, the gear and costuming look pretty good and I have read that Peter had a hand in its production, so I have high hopes for it.
 
Go and see the original Opera. Well done, it is incredible. A lot of opera is, quite frankly, chick-flick fodder, boy meets girl sort of stuff. But The Ring is guy opera! Of course, it takes a week to see it, but what a week!
 
Chuck, I assumed that most of the folks who might go to see the opera were already aware of it and I also assumed that anyone who really cared would also be aware of the mythic underpinnings to Peter's story. Did I assume wrongly?
 
FullerH said:
Peter Morwood, who posts on SwordForum and NetSword wrote a screenplay, "The Ring of the Nibellungs". This is now due for showing on the SciFi Channel on April 27 of this year. It will be called "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King".
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Uhh...it aired over a week ago, I have all 4 hours on tape still for a friend who missed it.

It was actually very good, Kristiana Lokken was great as Brunhilde Queen of Iceland.
 
AAARRRGGGHHH!:mad: :mad:

I am going around kkicking myself in the butt! Somehow, I messed it. I do understand that it is due out on DVD however.
 
Never fear, SciFi always gets their buck worth out of these things. It'll come around again.
 
Part of my problem is that the local rag doesn't show the listings for SciFi Channel.
 
Was it really that good ? I've been psyched about past Sci Fi mini series type films and was pretty disappointed when I finally saw them.
The previews looked great for DK , but then so did the other previews..
hmm.:confused:
 
Peter Morwood is one very good and very knowledgeable individual, this much I can tell you. How much influence he had in the final product, I do not know, but I do know that he was spending a lot of time with the filming, so he did have involvement. That, alone, gives me enough confidence to order the DVD. I will post a review when I have received it and watched it.
 
rebeltf said:
Was it really that good ? I've been psyched about past Sci Fi mini series type films and was pretty disappointed when I finally saw them.
The previews looked great for DK , but then so did the other previews..
hmm.:confused:
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I have been disappointed so many times by "made for sci-fi" movies, that I have rarely seen the endings of most of them.

This one is not quite the epic that Lord OF The Rings was, and the special effects aren't alot, it's mostly just decent acting. I actually watched it all the way through and enjoyed it.

I'd say it's WAY above most sci-fi channel movies!

oh and ANY excuse to watch Kristianna Lokken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
A friend who saw it said that it was pretty good but that, like the Norse sagas that he so loves, it tended to be on the grim side. Well, that would be holding to the original story, wouldn't it? You would not expect the Sigfried story to be a happy one. Kind of like Arthur walking happily away from CamLann.
 
A review of "Dark Kingdom - The Dragon King" (2006), written by Peter Morwood and his wife, Diane Duane. It stars the hunky Benno Furmann as Siegfried and the luscious Kristanna Loken as Brunnhild. With the exception of setting much of the action in castles more fitting to "Hamlet" than the "Ring of the Niebelung", it appears to be a true replay of the story, down to its tragic ending. There is a great scene with the casting of Siegfried's sword and some really great fight scenes. Peter and Diane stayed on to provide advice throughout the filming, not that it was all taken. But some was. They did not have the sword cast as in the Conan film, for instance. They did cast the rods from which it was forged and that was the compromise that Peter got from the director. The forging makes a great scene and how often do we see a pattern-welded sword being forged in a film?

There is a great axe fight, sort of a holmgang, between Brunnhild and Siegfried magically disguised to look like King Gunther. But it is set on an ice floe rather than an island. Great action shots.

The film is available from Amazon on DVD which is where I got it and I have enjoyed it very much. And my wife will tell you that I am very picky about historical epics.
 
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