Prince Valiant (1997 film)

Prince Valiant
VHS cover
Directed byAnthony Hickox
Screenplay byMichael Frost Beckner
Anthony Hickox
Carsten H.W. Lorenz
Story byMichael Frost Beckner
Based onPrince Valiant
by Hal Foster
Produced byTom Rosenberg
James Gorman
Bernd Eichinger
StarringStephen Moyer
Katherine Heigl
Thomas Kretschmann
Edward Fox
Udo Kier
Warwick Davis
Joanna Lumley
Ron Perlman
CinematographyRoger Lanser
Edited byAlexander Berner
Music byDavid Bergeaud
Distributed byEntertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)[1]
20th Century Fox (United States)
Release dates
  • July 24, 1997 (1997-07-24) (Germany)
  • December 19, 1997 (1997-12-19) (United Kingdom)
Running time
91 minutes
CountriesIreland
United Kingdom
Germany
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[2]

Prince Valiant is a 1997 Irish-British independent sword and sorcery film directed by Anthony Hickox, written by Michael Frost Beckner, and starring Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Thomas Kretschmann, Joanna Lumley, Ron Perlman, and Edward Fox. It is a loose adaptation of the long-running Prince Valiant comic strip of Hal Foster, some panels of which were used in the film. In it, Valiant must battle the Vikings and a scheming sorceress to save the kingdom.

  1. ^ "Prince Valiant (1997)". BBFC. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  2. ^ Jones, Alan (March 1998). "Prince Valiant". Cinefantastique. Fourth Castle Micromedia. Retrieved 21 February 2023.