Reign of Fire

Reign of Fire (2002)

Timing: 1:41 (101 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2002-07-09

Country

Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, The Zanuck Company, World 2000 Entertainment, Birnbaum / Barber Productions, Barber/Birnbaum Productions

Genre

Adventure, Action, Fantasy

Budget

$60 000 000

Revenue

$82 150 183

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Director

Rob Bowman

Actors

Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Alexander Siddig, Scott Moutter, David Kennedy, Ned Dennehy, Rory Keenan, Terence Maynard
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Scenario

Gregg Chabot

Producer

Richard D. Zanuck, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Lili Fini Zanuck, Jonathan Glickman

Operator

Adrian Biddle

Composer

Ed Shearmur

Artist

Julie Busher

Audition

Priscilla John, Marcia Ross

Editing

Thom Noble, Declan McGrath
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• The method by which the dragons breathe fire was borrowed from two animals: the spitting cobra and the bombardier beetle.
• The film's showing, scheduled for July 7, 2005, on British television channel ABC, was canceled due to the terrorist attacks that occurred in London on that day. Channel management believed that the sight of London being ravaged by dragons would remind viewers of the tragedy that had taken place, and replaced 'Reign of Fire' in the broadcast schedule with the family comedy 'Big Fat Liar' (2002).
• Filming period: February 19 – July 2001.
• A significant portion of the film was shot in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, near Dublin. Since this area is part of a national park and is popular with tourists, the filmmakers were allowed to work under strict conditions, ensuring that everything would be cleaned up and returned to its original state without any damage to the natural landscape after filming.
• The screening of the film, scheduled for July 7, 2005, on British television channel ABC, was canceled due to the terrorist attacks that occurred in London on that day. Channel management believed that the spectacle of a dragon-ravaged London would remind viewers of the tragedy that had taken place, and replaced "Reign of Fire" in the broadcast schedule with the family comedy "Big Fat Liar" (2002).
• Initially, Christian Bale intended to lose weight for the role of Quinn, believing that thinness and exhaustion would be logical and natural for a post-apocalyptic world where sustenance was scarce. However, on set, he noticed Matthew McConaughey's (who played Van Zan) strong physique, changed his mind about losing weight, and instead began actively working out at the gym. Considering the upcoming filming of a fight scene with McConaughey, the actor decided that the fight would look more realistic if the physiques of the participants were more or less the same.
• The first outbreak in almost 40 years of enteroviral vesicular stomatitis (an acute infectious disease) in Ireland in 2001 meant that filmmakers needed to obtain special permission to shoot in some counties. During that period, local residents were only allowed to go outside for a short time and only in cases of extreme necessity. It was recommended to refrain from traveling even within the country.
• Some of the blows that Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey delivered to each other in the fight scene were genuine (such as the headbutt that McConaughey delivered to Bale).
• The film’s broadcast, scheduled for July 7, 2005, on British television channel ABC, was canceled due to the terrorist attacks that took place in London on that day. Channel management believed that the spectacle of London ravaged by dragons would remind viewers of the tragedy that had occurred, and replaced "Reign of Fire" in the schedule with the family comedy "Big Fat Liar" (2002).