Cast Wooed For Beowulf
Columbia Pictures is negotiating with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Brendan Gleeson and Robin Wright Penn to star in director Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf, a film based on the classic Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Variety reported. The performance-capture film, about a knight who slays a monster and becomes king, is being financed by Steve Bing's Shangri-La Entertainment, the trade paper reported.
Winstone and his co-stars would be committing to a process that is more like a regular movie than the voiceover work commonly done for 3-D animated films, the trade paper reported. Zemeckis pioneered the technique in his The Polar Express and the recently completed summer 2006 release Monster House. The actors perform their roles, which get processed through a computerized motion capture animation process.
Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman adapted Beowulf, with Zemeckis and his ImageMovers partners Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke producing.
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