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Medieval Fantasy Epic ‘The Stolen Child’ Director on Drawing Inspiration From ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘Stalker,’ ‘The Fountain’ (EXCLUSIVE)
At next month’s European Film Market in Berlin, the first footage will be shown to buyers from medieval fantasy epic 'The Stolen Child.'
This helped stimulate their imaginations, feeding off an existing interest in Celtic folklore, and acted as a spur to create fantasy films as magical as Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Referring to the inspiration provided by Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels, McKinnon tells Variety: “’The Fellowship of the Ring’ was the film that made me want to make films.” He adds: “I remember coming out of the theater and looking at Ben and being like, ‘Wow, this is what we have to do. The executive producers include Sylvain Corbeil of Metafilms, Lee Broda of LB Entertainment, Carl Francesco Giacomo, Rachelle Cuierrier and Joel Martinez, as well as Yuan Sui and Andreas Rothbauer of Picture Tree Intl.
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