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Nick Hamm’s ‘William Tell’ Gives History’s Most Famous Archer the Action Pic Treatment: ‘Studios Stopped Making These Films, and I Don’t Know Why’
Premiering in Toronto, 'William Tell' features rousing action sequences, inspiring monologues, and a glossy blend of digital and practical effects.
A former crusader, Tell would rather use his blade to till the fields than fight against oppression but is pushed to violence after being forced by the king’s unscrupulous men to shoot an apple off his son’s head from a seemingly impossible distance. While Hamm always saw Tell’s story as an anti-war fable, he says his main objective was to make something fun that audiences would enjoy, and that could fill a gap he believes exists at the box office. Hamm, on the other hand, uses the iconic scene to launch into a revolutionary epic about Tell and a pieced-together Swiss army that sets up a potential sequel by the film’s end.
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