The cast included Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart, The Big Lebowski) in the titular role, Dave Bautista as Beowulf (Dune: Part Two, Guardians of the Galaxy series), Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe and six-time Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad,” Trumbo) as King Hrothgar, Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Sam Elliott (A Star is Born, Tombstone) as The Dragon, Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho, Eileen) as Queen Wealhtheow, and Aidan Turner (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) as Unferth. Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning composer, producer and songwriter, T Bone Burnett (composer, O Brother, Where Art Thou, Walk The Line) will also star as The Shaper and provide original songs for the film. Robert D. Krzykowski (“The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot”) will direct from a screenplay he adapted from John Gardner’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name.
The acclaimed Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (Five Nights at Freddy’s, Where the Wild Things Are, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) will handle the practical creature work and design.
Grendel is produced by Brian Henson (The Muppet Christmas Carol, Farscape) and Vince Raisa (The Happytime Murders, Disney+’s “Earth to Ned”) for the Jim Henson Company (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Pinocchio, The Portable Door), Robert D. Krzykowski and Jay Glazer (Body Language, Get Luke Lowe), who together acquired the rights to the novel in 2020, Dennis Berardi (Monster Hunter, Frankenstein), and Jon D. Wagner (Bone Tomahawk, Haunt).
Executive producers are Jeff Bridges, John Sayles (Lone Star, Eight Men Out), Tamara Birkemoe, and Joe Jenckes of Ashland Hill Media Finance. Palisades Park Pictures are launching worldwide sales at the upcoming Marché du Film, with CAA and UTA Independent Film Group co-repping rights for North America. Ashland Hill Media Finance is financing.
“Grendel represents everything I love about the movies. John Gardner’s mad masterpiece cleverly tackles what it is to be human through the wild-eyed lens of a monster,” said Krzykowski. “It’s an honor to work with such a remarkable group of storytellers, all of whom seek to bring something wonderful and unexpected to audiences now.”
“We are delighted to be introducing this elevated, high-concept story to our distributors around the world,” added Tamara Birkemoe, CEO Palisades Park Pictures. “With this brilliant cast, Bob’s vivid vision and the extraordinary creative track record of our friends at The Jim Henson Company, we cannot wait to see Grendel come to life.”
Brian Henson, producer and Chair of the Board of The Jim Henson Company says, “The Jim Henson Company is internationally known for our world creation and character creation. And we are most inspired when a character has a richly authentic personality, and can be sophisticated, thought-provoking, and believable. Grendel is the ultimate character, and will be brought to life using our Creature Shop’s cutting-edge practical techniques in combination with Dennis Berardi’s amazing digital effects.”
Shooting will begin later this year in Europe.
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