MrRING
Android Futureman
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That's right, fantasy fans - some 80 odd years after Fritz "The Man" Lang's version of the Ring, we're going to have a new mid-budget film based on the legend! It will be directed by Uli Edel, who made the world safe for The Little Vampire, made the TBS original Evil Never Dies, the feminist retelling of Arthur "Mists of Avalon" mini & an episode of Twin Peaks.
Benno Fürmann will be Siegfried, all-around manly hero, and Kristanna Loken will be the vengeful Brunnhild. Alicia Witt, Julian Sands, and Max Von Sydow will be appearing as well.
Here's what IMDB said about the plot - see how LoTR was probably used as a selling point for the film....
Based on the Germanic myth "Das Nibelungenlied" and the Nordic "Volsunga Saga" which also inspired the four-opera cycle by Richard Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien's epic "The Lord of the Rings", this is the story of the young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387541/maindetails
Benno Fürmann will be Siegfried, all-around manly hero, and Kristanna Loken will be the vengeful Brunnhild. Alicia Witt, Julian Sands, and Max Von Sydow will be appearing as well.
Here's what IMDB said about the plot - see how LoTR was probably used as a selling point for the film....
Based on the Germanic myth "Das Nibelungenlied" and the Nordic "Volsunga Saga" which also inspired the four-opera cycle by Richard Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien's epic "The Lord of the Rings", this is the story of the young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387541/maindetails