Prince Valiant | |
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Directed by | Anthony Hickox |
Screenplay by | Michael Frost Beckner Anthony Hickox Carsten H.W. Lorenz |
Story by | Michael Frost Beckner |
Based on | Prince Valiant by Hal Foster |
Produced by | Tom Rosenberg James Gorman Bernd Eichinger |
Starring | Stephen Moyer Katherine Heigl Thomas Kretschmann Edward Fox Udo Kier Warwick Davis Joanna Lumley Ron Perlman |
Cinematography | Roger Lanser |
Edited by | Alexander Berner |
Music by | David Bergeaud |
Distributed by | Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom)[1] 20th Century Fox (United States) |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Countries | Ireland United Kingdom Germany |
Language | English |
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.