Why Reign Of Fire Failed

Since I read The hobbit And I saw the animated adaptation of 1977 (it is still my favorite version of Smaug), I have been in love with fierce fantasy creatures.

So much so, I just saw Dragons’s flightWhere John Ritter uses logic to defeat an evil evil dragon sorcerer with a voice by Darth’s father.

And my generation was prepared to obtain dragon fever thanks to the production of box office Tarragon Be so successful.

But before HBO was monopolized by HBO, there was another Dragon movie that was excited in my youth.

And this seemed that it could be the best serious representation of the dragons in an important film until that time.

But this film was not close to the success of Tarragon And it is still a favorite of worship at best.

We will examine the ashes to find out why Reign of fire Failed.

Like many original high concept stories, Reign of fire It existed as a script for years before it ever came to production.

The key history concept is that dragons have hidden bones under the earth and throw themselves at the beginning of the film.

This leads to the massive laugh of humans to the point of a post-apocalyptic society.

The main story implies a hidden surviving community of dragons. When a wandering warrior enters this community, they end up being led to fight against burning monsters.

So here there is an initial theory and certainly low impact of why the public is aligning Reign of fireBut I think it is a point that talks about selling an audience in an idea can be more nuanced than it seems initially.

Take a look at Reign of fire Posters

You see dragons burning the London landscape as they do obviously by Big Ben and the Westminster Palace.

That is selling a dragonpocalypse movie similar to something like Independence Day. “Come see dragons (instead of aliens) destroy the world!”

But if you look at the real footage of Reign of fire When looking at what they used for the trailer, that idea does not seem to be what the real representatives of the film.

Instead of Roland Glee chaotic similar to Roland Emmerich, Reign of fire It seems to be a very direct and serious version of the dragons versus humans.

And that’s the movie.

It is not a film about dragons that destroy the world. Reign of fire It is actually a film about a world already destroyed by dragons. That’s where most of the plot takes place.

That probably did not seem attractive to some spectators from the beginning that I wanted to watch a Dragonpocalypse movie that was more like a trip of disaster emotion.

You already know, Tornado But with dragons. And that is not Reign of fire.

By the time I was in front of the cameras, Reign of fire had X-Files Rob Bowman Director to the helm.

Bowman not only had an outstanding director for many key episodes of The X files Television series, but was also the director of the first feature film in the franchise.

And like Hey with The X filesBowman wanted to base a supernatural history in a sense of realism.

With this in mind, Reign of fire He ends up looking quite well if his artistic objective is to create a dirty and desperate world that is almost erased.

Unfortunately, with a concept as large and bold as “dragons are real and exist in a modern environment”, there were also audiences that simply keep it to buy this concept.

I understand, I think this has more to do with the general feeling of the times than any lasting problem with Reign of fire.

Pop culture had just experienced a fantasy rebirth with the first Harry Potter Movie and the first Lord of the Rings Film, both historical successes and movies that would gain their place as gender classics.

Reign of fire Released only a few months after the thesis films and sold audiences in a modern, sandy version and based on a classical fantasy idea.

I was trying to do this at a time when the classic fantasy elements of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings They were being hugged by a broad audience and finding their home in pop culture.

Basically, it was the wrong time to have people on board Reign of fireThe artistic take. Today, this is probably an idea that could be thanks to a landscape after the game of thrones that allows less fantasy riffs in fantasy.

He didn’t help that Reign of fire He lacked to be able to star for the time.

Matthew McConaughey gets the best billing, but his American warrior is a secondary character at best. And he thought he certainly had some cache, he was not a bankable star in 2002.

Equally less notable at the moment was Christian Bale. Although he had definitely had a breaking paper in American PsychopathHe still had to put the cape and the cup and become a family name.

Look, I like it News As much as you, but Christian Bale was not a name that was the family for the Drive-In that weekend in 2002.

The same goes for Gerard Butler, who at that time people may have recognized, I don’t know, Dracula 2000 If something?

So we have a film from the Estragonpocalypse where we cannot see the Estragonpocalypse snacks, a gloomy version of the dragons duration in which classical fantasy is in a peak of pop culture, and a cast still but still is Wedd.

Add to that Reign of fire Launching the second week of a highly antipated sequel, One in black IIas well as very mixed reviews and has a recipe for an effect film of $ 60 million that opened in number three with $ 15.6 million.

Reign of fire I could barely overcome the first weekend of the Hallowe’en Movie where Busta Rhymes uses Kung Fu at Michael Myers.

At least he lost the number two of a great comic movie, Road to PerditionOne of my five best favorite films by Tom Hanks.

Now, if you want my opinion about Reign of fire As a movie, you can get the long version in the episode of Genrevision Movie Club we did, we presented it Tarragon.

But while I can applaud the effects of the dragon on Reign of fireThe real movie is fine. It is not surprising or terrible and that makes it a little less interesting in general.

However, I will say that Reign of fire He is the son of the film that deserves another shot, either through a reset or sequel/prequel.

I mean, Tarragon I have four sequelae! Four sequelae! And I couldn’t tell you a single thing about them! Except that they probably have dragons in them. Maybe one of the sequelae has two dragons? Maybe those dragons are dragons of friends or may not be friends. I don’t know and I will never know.

But I know that the idea of ​​doing The Terminator But with dragons that destroy humanity or robots skeletons sound quite well.

Reign of fire He promised a movie that would make that but did not deliver. There is still time to fulfill that promise.

And as is Reign of fire He is the son of the film that deserves a culture of worship.

It is a tight and unique idea that was not entirely correct for the moment. It does not help that real production has had to deal with an outbreak of disease, which leads to certain scenes being cut or rewritten by necessity.

So I have some sympathy for Reign of fire Also bee an unjustly compromised session.

With any other intellectual property under the sun that is put through the rotation of the content, why not give? Reign of fire Another attempt? It cannot be worse than that last game of Thrones Season!

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