The Last Warrior: A Messenger of Darkness

The Last Warrior: Emissary of Darkness
Teaser poster
Directed byDmitry Dyachenko
Written by
  • Vitaly Shlyappo
  • Dimitri Yan
  • Vasily Kutsenko
  • Pavel Danilov
  • Igor Tudvasev
Based onRussian: Bogatyr
English: Hero or Warrior
Produced by
  • Kakhaber Abashidze
  • Eduard Iloyan
  • Vitaly Shlyappo
  • Denis Zhalinsky
  • Aleksandr Kushaev
Starring
CinematographyPavel Kapinos
Music byGeorge Kallis
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International
Release date
  • 23 December 2021 (2021-12-23)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget₽454 million
Box office
  • ₽2.196 billion[1]
  • $27 million

The Last Warrior: Emissary of Darkness[2] (Russian: Последний богатырь: Посланник тьмы, lit. 'The Last Bogatyr: A Messenger of Darkness'; also known as The Last Warrior 3) is a 2021 Russian fantasy comedy film, a sequel to The Last Warrior: Root of Evil (2021) and is the third and final installment in The Last Warrior series.[3]

The film is directed by Dmitry Dyachenko[4][5] and stars Viktor Khorinyak, Mila Sivatskaya, Ekaterina Vilkova, Elena Yakovleva, Konstantin Lavronenko, Sergey Burunov and Philipp Kirkorov.

It was theatrically released in Russian by Walt Disney Studios on 23 December 2021. The film was also shown in IMAX cinemas[6]

As of 9 January 2022, the film became the 9th-highest-grossing local-language release of all time in Russia, surpassing The Last Warrior with 1.88 billion rubles ($25.5 million). In Russia, the film holds the 9th place biggest box-office audiences. This was Disney Russia's fourth and last film produced specifically for the Russian market, with the previous being The Book of Masters (2009), The Last Warrior (2017), and The Last Warrior: Root of Evil (2021). It is the most recent Disney film released in Russia, as the company paused its business there in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  1. ^ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)
  2. ^ https://www.amazon.com/Last-Warrior-Emissary-Darkness-Soundtrack/dp/B09NQV4GC3 [bare URL]
  3. ^ Khoroshilova, Tatiana (August 7, 2020). "Завершается работа над фильмом-сказкой "Последний богатырь-3"" [The work on the fairy-tale film The Last Warrior 3 is coming to an end]. Union State (in Russian). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  4. ^ "Минкульт разрешил прокат одного из главных новогодних блокбастеров" [The Ministry of Culture allowed the rental of one of the main New Year's blockbusters]. RBK Group (in Russian). December 15, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  5. ^ Glyba, Konstantin (December 15, 2021). "В новой драме "Бешенство" Алексей Серебряков сыграет отца, спасающего сына от наркомании в тайге" [In the new drama "Rabies", Aleksei Serebryakov will play the father saving his son from drug addiction in the taiga]. Komsomol Truth (in Russian). Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  6. ^ ""Последний богатырь 3": что известно о новом фильме" [The Last Warrior 3: what is known about the new film]. Vesti.ru (in Russian). January 4, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2021.