![]() With the cast acquainted with the material and each other, filming began on January 25, 1982. ![]() The director wanted the cast to experience the film as a whole, and to understand the world within it so they could know the motivations of their character. Yates had the cast do a read through of the script prior to filming, a process usually designated for television shows. With the idea of dragons later cut, the title was shortened to just Krull, the name of the planet where a dark alien force invades and is pursued by a prince and his band of companions after the princess is kidnapped. Yates was hired by producer Ron Silverman to direct a script called The Dragons of Krull, written by Stanford Sherman and to be released by Columbia Pictures. Then again, Robbery didn’t star Steve McQueen. Robbery has long fallen into the dust bin of film history, while the legend of Bullitt still looms. The real interesting part, however, is that it was Yates’s car chase in 1967’s Robbery that convinced McQueen to request that Yates direct Bullitt. Perhaps his time as a professional race car driver provided Yates with the extra insight to shoot such a sequence. Director Peter Yates had his breakout picture in 1968 with Bullitt starring Steve McQueen, which has one of the most thrilling car chase sequences ever put on screen. Krull was described by Variety as “ Excalibur meets Star Wars,” an ambitious, world building, sword and sorcery epic that was one of the most expensive films ever produced at the time. In 1983, the big 1950s officially merged with the big 1980s, blending the aesthetic of classic sword and sandal epics with the special effects heavy outer space saga. The old school adventure movie met the big budget blockbuster in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Excalibur. Steven Spielberg gave birth to the summer blockbuster with the record breaking Jaws in 1975, while George Lucas changed movies forever two years later with the outer space epic, Star Wars. But with the passage of time came new technology and bigger budgets. DeMille, along with B movie science fiction and swashbuckling adventure fare from the 1950s and ’60s, were showing their influence on the next generation of filmmakers. Epics from director David Lean and producer Cecil B. The old was meeting the new in the Hollywood of the 1980s. ![]() Video Rewind tells the behind the scenes stories of VHS favorites from the video store era, one rental at a time! Press play and adjust your tracking, this month’s movie is “Krull” (1983). ![]()
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