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Mark Atkins + Wales + Dragons = potentially good times.

posted 13 years ago by misbegotten
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I think The Asylum's best movie (so far) has been Merlin and the War of the Dragons, a first rate sword & sorcery adventure that was directed by Mark Atkins and filmed in Wales (coincidentally, my second favourite Asylum flick Sherlock Holmes was also filmed there). So I'm really looking forward to Dragon Crusaders, which also lensed in Wales with Atkins at the helm. Especially as some of the key cast-members from Merlin and the War of the Dragons apparently have major roles.

Dragon Crusaders seems to be The Asylum's entry in the current wave of medieval horror/action movies that started about a year-and-a-half ago, and mostly centre upon Crusaders and other adventurers battling against witches and the occasional demon during times of plague (examples include James Purefoy as Solomon Kane, Sean Bean in Black Death, Season of the Witch with Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman, James Frain in Dark Relic, and Purefoy again in the non-fantasy but very bloody Ironclad).

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[–] misbegotten 13 years ago

Several actors from Merlin and the War of the Dragons return in Dragon Crusaders, and looking at the cast listing for the latter on the IMDB I've spotted similiarities in the roles some of them play in both movies.

For example, in Merlin and the War of the Dragons Iona Thonger played Ingraine - Uther Pendragon's future wife and Queen, while Carys Eleri and Nia Ann played Viviane and Nimue - the Ladies of the Lake.
In Dragon Crusaders, Thonger is portraying the 'Forest Queen', while Eleri and Ann are playing two of the 'Witches of Caer'lo.'

Hmm. When Merlin and the War of the Dragons was originally released, director Mark Atkins said in interviews that it was intended to be the first in a trilogy. Unfortunately it didn't happen, but I suspect that with Dragon Crusaders, Atkins has taken a script for one of the planned Merlin sequels and subjected it to a rewrite.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 4 years ago

That would be Igraine. Ingrown refers to a toenail.