The Rock...
Academy Award winners Sean Connery and
Nicholas Cage star in the action-adventure that critics are hailing as
the drop-dead thrill ride of the year... The Rock! Millions of lives
hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris - Apollo 13)
seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch
deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away, a
chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Connery),
who happens to be the only man to break out of Alcatraz, must now break
in and disarm the missiles! From the hot filmmaking team that brought
you Crimson Tide and Top Gun, The Rock delivers hard-hitting action and
suspense you'll never forget!
King Artur...
King Arthur is a 2004 historical adventure film directed by Antoine
Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. It features an ensemble cast with
Clive Owen as the title character, Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot and Keira
Knightley as Guinevere, along with Mads Mikkelsen, Joel Edgerton, Hugh
Dancy, Ray Winstone, Ray Stevenson, Stephen Dillane, Stellan Skarsgård
and Til Schweiger
The film is unusual in reinterpreting
Arthur as a Roman officer rather than the typical medieval knight There
have been several literary works that have also done so, including David
Gemmell's Ghost King, Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, and perhaps the
strongest influence on this film, Bernard Cornwell's Warlord series. The
producers of the film attempted to market it as a more historically
accurate version of the Arthurian legends, supposedly inspired by new
archaeological findings. The film also replaces the sword in the stone
story with a more dark and tragic backstory of how Arthur claimed his
sword Excalibur. The film was shot in Ireland, England, and Wales.