{"id":1848,"date":"2005-09-29T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/st-george-in-the-movies.html"},"modified":"2005-09-29T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T01:00:39","slug":"st-george-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/st-george-in-the-movies.html","title":{"rendered":"St. George in the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Peter Chattaway’s Film Chat blog:<\/a><\/p>\n

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…David Auburn, the playwright behind Proof<\/span><\/a><\/em> (my review<\/span><\/a>), is now working on a script for a movie called St. George and the Dragon<\/em>. Apparently this film is the brainstorm of Doug Wick, who saw a painting based on this legend three years ago; the IMDB<\/span><\/a> lists Wick as a producer of Gladiator<\/span><\/a><\/em> (2000; my review<\/span><\/a>), Hollow Man<\/span><\/a><\/em> (2000), Bewitched<\/span><\/a><\/em> (2005) and Stuart Little<\/span><\/a><\/em> (1999-2002; my comments<\/span><\/a>), among others.<\/p>\n

As one might expect in this day and age, this new film will not be a straightforward telling of the heroic tale. Says Wick: "St. George and the Dragon<\/em> is the enduring myth of a knight’s struggle to save a feudal princess from a fearsome beast. In Auburn’s retelling, the knight will be not so chivalrous, and the princess not so chaste." Perhaps the beast will not be so fearsome, either, then?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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