Loading ...Paul Lauer, whose company Motive Marketing marketed The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005), is now marketing the new controversial film There Be Dragons, which just finished filming in Spain and will premiere in 2010. There will be a live phone press conference Thursday, October 29, with Dragons director Roland Joffe and actress Olga Kurylenko. You can read the full story here.
Movie Overview
While researching the life of St. Josemaria Escriva, the founder of the controversial Opus Dei, a young journalist, estranged from his military father, discovers dark and terrible family secrets of jealousy, war and passion, and the chance for final redemption.
THERE BE DRAGONS OVERVIEW
An epic portrayal of jealousy, hatred, love and redemption set during the tumultuous times of the Spanish Civil War.
A tale of loss between a father and son, of revolutionaries fighting for freedom, of a woman’s search for love and a man’s jealous betrayal . . . and the struggles of a visionary whose life mysteriously impacts them all…
THE PROJECT
There Be Dragons combines action, adventure and romance with the extraordinary drama of human tragedy and divine redemption. Director/writer Roland Joffe (The Mission, Killing Fields, City of Joy) has taken characters from different times and places and interconnected their lives to create conflicts and ironies that challenge them with choices of hope or despair.
PLOT
While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past…
Going back in time, we see that Manolo and Escriva are childhood friends, and both face the hardships and injustices that are tearing Spain apart. But as young men, their paths diverge, and while Escriva pursues a life of faith, Manolo is swept into the brutal and tumultuous Spanish Civil War.
Once a soldier, Manolo becomes obsessed with a beautiful Hungarian revolutionary, Ildiko, who has joined the militia in pursuit of passion and purpose. But when Ildiko rejects him and gives herself instead to the courageous militia leader Oriol, Manolo’s jealousy leads him down a path of betrayal.
As personal and national battles rage, the characters’ lives collide and their deepest struggles are illuminated. Only then can they face the ultimate choices that will result in tragedy or triumph, and a chance for final redemption.
Production Information
There Be Dragons director Roland Joffe has previously directed the highly acclaimed films The Mission (starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, nominated for seven Academy Awards, and winner of La Palma de Oro of Cannes) and The Killing Fields, winner of three Academy Awards.
The cast for Dragons includes Charlie Cox (Stardust, Casanova), Wes Bentley (American Beauty, Ghost Rider), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Max Payne), and Rodrigo Santoro (300, Che). Academy Award winner Eugenio Zanetti (Restoration) is art director; Academy Award winner Yvonne Blake (What Dreams May Come) is wardrobe and costume designer; and Academy Award winner Michelle Burke (Quest for Fire, Dracula) is makeup designer.
The $35 million film was shot in Argentina and Spain and will be released in theaters worldwide in 2010.
Motive Marketing also marketed The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008), United 93 (2006), Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004), and The Polar Express (2004).