BEOWULF Without Gerard "300" Butler? No!!!!
Comic-Con will get a preview of Robert Zemeckis' intriguing BEOWULF, starring Ray Winstone as the Old English hero, Crispin Glover as Grendel, and Angelina Jolie as Grendel's Mother.
Sheigh Crabtree of Los Angeles Times had an early look and puts us in the picture.
I retain an irrational fondness for the Icelandic-Canadian coproduction BEOWULF & GRENDEL, starring a pre-300 Gerard Butler -- born to play the hero. If anyone could have swum for seven days in the open sea, it's him. (Winstone's a magnetic, ultramanly actor in his own way, but no matter how much CG muscle work they do to the guy, he doesn't have what Butler's got: major chick appeal)
From BEOWULF & GRENDEL:
Some classic quotable dialogue: When Beowulf, as clever as he is strong, realizes that Grendel's bloody attacks on the Danes aren't as random as they seem, he questions king Hrothgar (Stellan Skarsgard) about the creature's motives, he gets a hilarious answer.
"Beowulf! It's a fucking troll! It's what they do!" yells the mead-drunk Danish king. "Somebody probably looked at it the wrong way."
Another photo from Zemeckis' BEOWULF
