Jan 13 2006Grendel Is A Tall, Bearded Gentleman
The trailer for Beowulf & Grendel, the upcoming movie based on the epic tale of Beowulf, has been released on the official site. I read this story in high school, but I remember Grendel being a much cooler opponent. Isn't he some kind of monster? If the trailer is any indication, Beowulf is basically fighting a wrestler, or a tall, cartoon hermit. Hopefully he'll fight a dinosaur or something too.
Which reminds me: remember that part in King Kong where he tears that dinosaur's jaw open? That was really something.
Beowulf & Grendel Trailer [Official Site]
Reader Comments
1. metroville - January 13, 2006 3:44 PM
That's actually not Grendel pictured; it's his father. He gets killed in the beginning of the story, essentially putting the plot in motion.
2. violence in movies and sex on tv - January 14, 2006 7:33 PM
Actually, Grendel's father was Cain, or he was somehow born of Cain's murder of Abel or some such shit. Anywho, Grendel's father isn't a monster. The plot isn't put in motion by Grendel's father getting murdered at all. Grendel is killing all the townspeople and soldiers in a village and Beowulf comes to slay him. Oh, that's right. I took senior English in high school. If that is Grendel, it's a letdown from the illustrations in John Gardner's novel about Grendel. He looked more like a Wookie/catman and not so much like a grizzled wrestler with too much chest hair.
3. violence in movies and sex on tv - January 14, 2006 7:33 PM
Oh! And I just remembered that Grendel's mother was killed, not his father. So yeah.
4. xAgonyxScenex - January 14, 2006 11:40 PM
ya thats not grendall...but they do show him in the trailer...and thats not how i pictured him when i read the poem in high school -_-'