hawk the slayer
vultan, leader of the hawk men from flash gordon. two hawk the slayer references from a single character !
sword and sorcery … the poster for hawk the slayer. photograph: itv / rex shutterstock
to quote a well loved british sitcom :
hawk the slayer is rubbish .
hawk the slayer is a british film, made in 1980 by terry marcel and harry robertson. it is the story of hawk, professional hero, swordsman and slayer, and also of voltan, hawk' s evil brother .
i love the music in hawk the slayer. especially that eagle shriek. i would assume that' s the shriek of a hawk... ; )
vultan: jack palance ‘at his scenery - chewing worst’ in hawk the slayer. photograph: itv / rex shutterstock
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hawk the slayer seemed like a much bigger world than what you actually saw in the film. was it always the intention to open it up ?
‘a medieval fistful of dollars’: hawk the slayer’s band of avengers, starring john terry, second left. photograph: itv / rex shutterstock
the faux patriot sissies at conservapedia think that hawk the slayer is liberal communist blasphemy against jebus and thus refuse to have any articles about it at all .
rebellion have also snapped up the games and publishing rights to the property. with exquisite timing, a new hawk the slayer blu - ray is out on monday from network. we' ll update on hawk the hunter shortly, following the kick - starting of the kickstarter .
the first two videos were then taken down from youtube by the representative of the harry robertson estate [ citing ] soundtrack copyright as we’d used a few seconds of original hawk the slayer music without permission .
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tragically, hawk' s producer harry robertson died in 1996. without his vision, a new hawk is impossible .
if you took a dungeons & dragons adventure written hastily by an 8th grader during study hall and turned it into a movie, you’d wind up with something a lot like hawk the slayer .
leitmotif: the pan flute cue every time hawk is about to do something .
in january 2009, a sequel to this movie, hawk the hunter (?? ? ?) was announced, the sequel' s scheduled release will be thirty - one years after this movie. the tagline reads :
the slayer returns. the hunt begins
.
i loved hawk the slayer as a kid! now that they' re finally planning a sequel (hawk the hunter), i wouldn' t be surprised to see it getting more attention from the rpg community. not sure what system i' d use for it, but probably something more narrative - based .
chronic backstabbing disorder: drogo, who kills the man who informs him of hawk raiding the slaver camp .
damsels in distress: a good part of the movie involves hawk and his gang rescuing the captured nun .
crow is alive! i have seen again. great underrated low budget fantasy movie. in 80 - s were more than 20 fantasy universes on the screen, but i remember good hawk the slayer, conan the barbarian and red sonja only of them .
they wanted to make a medieval fistful of dollars. they ended up with a cult hit that triggered the sword and sorcery boom. now, hawk the slayer is set to return – with better fights and special effects, but still plenty of cheese
hawk also manages an effective throw of his mind sword against the bandits that held ranulf hostage .
hawk if its on - watch it. it is lord of the ring without a budget !
some say that hawk is the definitive masterwork of the heroic fantasy film genre. others go further, and say that hawk is the definitive masterwork of all cinema. controversially, some even say that hawk is the finest piece of dramatic artwork ever produced by any human at any time throughout history. but all of these people insult the mighty hawk with their faint praise. in fact, hawk is the finest artwork in the entire universe, and if thou sayest otherwise, knave, then thou shalt taste cold steel !
i loved hawk the slayer as a kid! now that they' re finally planning a sequel (hawk the hunter), i wouldn' t be surprised to see it getting more attention from the rpg community. i suggest you track down prisoners of the lost universe, which terry marcel made three years after hawk, and which is totally not in any way the same plot with a goofy sf backstory (and has apollo from battlestar galactica in the lead role, to boot) .
karmic thief: hawk needs 2000 gold pieces for the ransom, so he steals them from the hunchbacked slave trader .
clearly it' s a week for unexpected and belated sequels. a day after the news that robin hardy is prepping the final part of his wicker man trilogy, comes the revelation that hawk the slayer is also set to return, 35 years after his first adventure. original director terry marcel, in cahoots with 2000ad publishers rebellion, is about to launch a crowdfunding campaign for hawk the hunter .
right here, right now, jack palance is dead. following
hawk the slayer
though, palance enjoyed a remarkable career including films like
batman ,
the pros and cons of hitchhiking ,
and
city slickers ,
for which he won the academy award .
fwiw, i watched
hawk the slayer
and immersed myself in a litany of 80s s & s films while putting magic world urltoken together. (legend, ladyhawke, willow, archer and the sorceress, conan the barbarian - - and endless conan ripoffs - - and more !). hawk the slayer, ladyhawke, and willow specifically were big influences on the default campaign setting in the book (
the southern reaches
). i always figured crow had a magical bow, rather than some innate ability to rapidfire arrows. back in the day, we just figured it was something like the runequest
multimissile
spell .
terry: i totally believe that this is an 8pm slot, as per hawk the slayer. the fans will kill me if i don’t keep all the elements of hawk in: we’ve got the giant, we will introduce a new dwarf called hanfer; there’s a female in the new one; crow, the new crow is still in it, but the old one’s in it as well, because in the sequel, the new character who plays crow comes across an old elf dying .
if you are from a parallel earth where youtube is a video site instead of a drainage pipe emporium, you can listen to the hawk the slayer soundtrack online. like everything else about hawk, the soundtrack is brilliance from beginning to end. sure, conan was good with its basil poledouris soundtrack, but imagine how much better it could have been with a bit of disco .
the grand finale fight between voltan and hawk lasts about 45 seconds and was filmed completely in slow motion .
we were also issued with a statement that under no circumstances were we allowed to use the hts soundtrack music to promote the sequel hawk the hunter .
hawk' s enemies are overpowered by glowing golf balls + 1. they are unstoppable !
i love the music in hawk the slayer. especially that eagle shriek. mind you... tallest dwarf, and shortest giant, ever. good chemistry between the two - i always liked the' holy food' gag :) and crikey, jack really chewed the scenary.' i will wait for you at the gates... of hell!'
terry: we’re constantly getting requests for merchandise, like, can we buy a sword? so apart from what jason’s doing, there’s a whole other area that we never got into on hawk the slayer that we’ll get into on this. the offers for the sword itself don’t stop. they pester me like mad .
hawk the slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. tooling himself up with the
mind - sword
and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one - armed man with a machine - crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; hawk leads the battle against voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones .
crow the elf, a man of few words. for moviegoers, though, this may have been their introduction to seeing an elf portrayed on the silver screen. ray charleson made it work. following hawk the slayer, he went on to star in
john and yoko: a love story
and
empire of the sun .
hawk the slayer was important to me as a boy ,
says rebellion ceo jason kingsley ,
and has remained an important touchstone for me now as an adult. it blazed a shining path of true sword and sorcery movie magic for others to follow. i am delighted, and slightly awed, to be part of the team helping to create more adventures for hawk and his friends .
andrew: it’s the licensing, the games. they’re a genre publishing company. jason’s a huge fan, and wants to expand the world of hawk: all the characters that terry’s created, he wants to branch off. only terry can do this: where did crow come from? where did hawk come from? what were hawk and voltan like when they were younger ?
this is followed by laughter a fight. drogo' s red shirts are mostly killed, and drogo is mortally wounded. two henchmen drag him back to voltan, where he dies. voltan is furious and starts killing his own people. this is because he is evil (in case you had forgotten). once again, voltan swears vengeance on hawk. (play the
hawk the slayer
drinking game if you are an alcoholic or just desparate to win kudos from your dorky friends in the chess club. you must take a drink whenever a character says
death
. but beware that true hawk fans will look down on you for watching hawk in an intoxicated state. watching hawk is serious business. )
the kickstarter campaign for hawk the hunter is ongoing now – click here to back it. visit the official website for more details, or follow them on twitter .
gort the giant, portrayed brilliantly by the late bernard bresslaw, saved the day repeatedly with his mighty hammer. bresslaw, standing at 6 & apos; 7
, was no stranger to playing giants. following
hawk the slayer ,
he went on to play another giant in the movie
krull .
because of his height, he was briefly considered for the role of frankenstein in the 1957 production
the curse of frankenstein .
first appeared in the uk. what’s the story behind the long wait for the sequel ?
dull surprise: john terry (hawk) seldom cracks any sort of expression. except at the end when he starts smirking .
this is a dream come true ,
says marcel .
iām delighted to be working with a true fan of sword - and - sorcery whose talent means the possibilities for hawk are endless ā keep watching hawk fans !
terry: like we did in hawk the slayer, we will go for some very well - known english actors to play all those minor parts that they were so fantastic in the other script. people like roy kinnear, annette crosbie and warren clarke, i hope i can get one those named actors to come across and do this .
on 30 august at frightfest, a kickstarter campaign was launched with the aim of raising funds for sequel hawk the hunter, which in turn will hopefully lead to a tv series, hawk the destroyer. we spoke to original director terry marcel and producer andrew grocock about what to expect…
the fellowship of the hawk begins to form. with the help of the witch, hawk is teleported to the locations of three companions: a giant, an elf, and a dwarf. each companion is engaged in some heroic fantasy activity that introduces them to tha audience, summing up their personality, motivation and personal background .
i' m still holding out hope that hawk will live again, but if this campaign couldn' t even muster the full support of its own fans, maybe the wider world just isn' t that bothered about seeing hawk do battle with voltan again .
who can save hawk now? will the nun ever be rescued? escape seems impossible... but wait... !
not only did hawk set the standard for heroic fantasy, it was also the genesis of an artistic tradition. musicians have their
twelve bar blues
, and writers have their own equivalent in the
generic quest story structure
popularised by hawk. leading hawkologist nick lowe summarises the key properties of a derivative work .
good hawk (john terry) and his bad brother, voltan (jack palance), vie for the power of a magic flying sword .
burn the witch! : hawk meets the witch by rescuing her from a couple of locals who want to burn her for... being a witch, apparently .
long before the lord of the rings there was
hawk the slayer ,
a fairly low budget, dungeons & dragons inspired movie, that has soared high through the test of time. it qualifies as one of those movies; it was good, and even when it was bad, it was bad in a good way. here it is 33 years later, the movie is still around, and many of the stars are showing up where you would least expect them .
hawk pioneered the quest - based story structure that would later be copied by lesser authors such as shakespeare, tolkien, homer, robert e. howard and jim theils. like all the quest - based stories that ripped it off, hawk' s plot can be divided into four sections :
kingsley and rebellion (co - founded by jason and his brother in 1992) are helping to produce hawk the hunter, much like they did with 2012' s dredd. rebellion will also do some cgi work for the film, and kingsley is mulling over plans for a game and novels in the hawk universe .
as a result of his psychotic hatred, voltan tries to kill hawk and has his face partly burned off by elaine. this is why he wears a mask. all who see below the mask scream in horror! voltan gets immediate revenge on elaine by shooting her with a crossbow and she dies in hawk' s arms. at this point, relations betwen hawk and voltan sour slightly .
so marcel was persuaded to map out a whole new mythic architecture for hawk. the sequel, if it is made, will see the slain vultan reanimated without a soul and looking for an evil sword to counter hawk’s weapon. there will be a couple of female additions to hawk’s crew instead of just nuns and witches, and a new cast of unknowns to play hawk, vultan et al. ray charleson, who played crow the elf in the original, has agreed to take a small part opposite his replacement, in what grocock refers to as “a poor man’s version” of the spock - meets - spock moment in the star trek franchise .
the final scene takes place at the convent, as voltan attempts to take revenge on hawk. this is the first place in the film where the sword of mind' s special powers are actually any use, because hawk is able to call on the sword and (at long last) kill voltan. and thus evil is defeated and the saga ends... or does it? (see
sequels
below )
that brother is hawk (john terry), who arrives too late to save his father but in time to hear the prophecy that he had been guarding and which had seen him slain by his own son. as he dies, hawk' s father gives him a magical sword (which voltan had desired) and the two are set on a path that will see them face one another in battle. when voltan breaks into a convent and kidnaps the mother superior, a one - handed man with an automatic crossbow seeks out hawk. hawk comes to the rescue of the sisters of the holy word, promising not only that he will raise the two thousand pieces of gold but will defeat voltan. carrying his sword before him, hawk sets out to gather a band of warriors ...
the back story is told through the innovative medium of flashbacks. at various points in the story, hawk will say something like
i have good reason to suspect that voltan can' t be trusted
. the camera will pan upwards slightly. then there is a fade to idyllic countryside, where hawk is chilling out with his newlywed wife elaine .
meanwhile, hawk is riding around in the forest, searching for voltan. he rescues a witch from being burned at the stake, and the audience sees that he is good. unusually, the witch admits her witchiness, and luckily turns out not to be evil. she will periodically reappear in order to resolve plot holes. next, hawk rescues ranulf, the messenger from the church sent to find him. ranulf is about to get a bandit ass - raping despite his 1337 crossbow skills, but hawk steps in to save him .
ok so it may be feature the worst special effects ever but that does not stop this movie being an all time fantasy classic. long live hawk !
badass boast: drogo will slay hawk himself and claim the gold, and
then voltan will see who is the lord of the dance !
well, he seems to think it' s badass anyway .
ooc is serious business: in one or two cases hawk changes his standard dull surprise expression and threatens to kill voltan. this is the cue that voltan has really crossed the line .
the fellowship play a lethal prank on a hunchback. from left to right: gort, ranulf, hawk, crow, baldin. note the clever use of forced perspective that makes gort look taller than the others .
kingsley got involved with the sequel through a series of happy coincidences. a while back, he was in the middle of a move and already thinking about old franchises that might be ripe for renewal within abaddon books, one of rebellion' s book imprints. as kingsley was rifling through a box of
those things you keep but only ever look at when you' re moving ,
he ran across his copy of hawk the slayer on vhs .
good witch versus bad witch: the unnamed witch supports hawk and his band, while voltan' s evil master serves as the movie' s bigger bad. they never fight directly, though .
our dwarves are all the same: averted. hawk' s dwarf companion doesn' t have a long beard, and he uses a whip instead of an axe .
in the second part of the adventure, the fellowship executes their plan to defeat evil. they do this by stealing some gold from a hunchbacked slave trader, noting that
the ends justify the means if we can save the mother superior !
( this the first hint of the moral ambiguity of the
good
guys: hawk is a very complex story where nothing is truly black or white. )
the details of hawk the hunter are sketchy at present, pending a full announcement by marcel at frightfest next month. we know that marcel will be delegating the directing duties this time, but it' s unclear who' s replacing him; whether any cast is yet in place (although ray charleson seems possible - see below); or if this is the same film as hawk the destroyer, the unrealised sequel marcel was already talking about thirty years ago. all - or at least more - will no doubt be revealed in due course. update: marcel has now announced on hawk the hunter' s facebook page that rick wakeman will be providing the soundtrack .
the sound effect used for the black wizard' s healing crystal is the one used for the sound of scaramanga' s laser in the man with the golden gun (1974) .
terry: if you’re a sword and sorcery fan, come take a look, because i think this’ll be worth watching. it’s going to be a good script, and if people enjoy a good story, and you haven’t seen hawk the slayer, there’s a reprise at the beginning that tells you why the brothers fought and what happened. so at least you can come into this without having watched the original and still enjoy it. it’s for anybody, but if you’re a sword and sorcery you’ve got to come and see this .
summon to hand: hawk can make his mindstone blade fly into his hand by thought alone. well, not fly, exactly. slowly float .
making a sequel for hawk would be like writing a sequel for the bible. no improvement is possible, and anyone attempting an improvement would probably be crucified for their heresy against the mighty hawk. the same goes for any remakes that anyone might think of doing. if you try, the true hawk fans will be waiting like the pharisees with a cross and some nails. so don' t even try it. i' m looking at you, nicholas cage, in your shitty wicker man remake. i' m also looking at you, tim burton, with your pisspoor
version
of planet of the apes. get lost, you mongs .
the lost woods: much of the scenes seem to be in the same patch of british forest .
not forgetting the sword and the sorcerer urltoken too and the warrior and the sorceress, which is the closest thing i' ve ever seen to a dark sun movie .
never trust a trailer: the trailer mentions
two armies
,
voltan' s army - the devil' s army, and hawk' s
. in the actual movie, hawk' s
army
consists of exactly six people, while voltan' s
army
is in no way satanical and has nothing to do with the legions of hell - it' s a band of some 100 or so normal human bandits .
hawk, having suffered the ignominy of watching both his father and fiancée die at the hands of his brother, voltan, sets out on a quest for companions to aid him in his fight to stop his brother' s reign of evil and free the abbess .
terry: anyone who is alive, we’re going to try and get back in different roles. patricia quinn – she doesn’t know it yet, but there’s a new character called fod. she’s in the television series. a lot of the strategy for the new series is based around the kitchen. she sort of runs the household for hawk and the others, and of course, although she’s a rough, fairy - type creature, she loves hawk; she calls him the master, and she’d do anything for him. and so, all the planning, plotting – it’s all done in the kitchen, and fod oversees it .
“we have a studio deal and a sales deal, ” says marcel, himself quite elfin at 73. games company rebellion has also signed up to produce a hawk game and a putative range of books or comics, and to provide cgi and funding for the sequel. rebellion’s co - founder jason kingsley described the original hawk as “a touchstone” of his life and said he was “delighted and slightly awed” to be part of the new venture .
in the first major part of the story, voltan kills his father. his brother hawk arrives - too late to save the old man, but just in time to be granted the sword of mind. it glows and flies across a room into the hands of its owner. (george lucas would later copy this idea for star wars. )
new powers as the plot demands: hawk gets the mindsword and his father explains that it' ll come to him if he wills it. but when he and ranulf travel through a haunted forest, he somehow knows the light it sheds will keep them protected from evil spirits ?
it’s a big cast, i saw the trailer, all i kept thinking was lord of the rings. i hope it works, because i want people to be aware of sword and sorcery. i hope it’s a big success, but i don’t think competition - wise i’ve got much to worry about. there’s a sword and sorcery space, and they’re going to eat up part of that space, but there’ll be plenty left for little old hawk the slayer. it’s six episodes of advertising to us, and it’s a great story; terry brooks is a hell of a writer .
crow: hawk turns up just as crow begins a shooting contest with two homosexuals. the audience learns that crow is the last elf in the world, is really good at shooting, has spock ears, and talks like a robot. (orlando bloom studied crow' s scenes repeatedly in preparation for lord of the rings, as the character of legolas is transparently based on crow. tolkien used profits from
the hobbit
to buy a cine projector for his oxford home specifically so that he could watch hawk every day until lord of the rings was completed. he saw it over 9000 times. )
rewarded as a traitor deserves: well, voltan offs the noviate who betrayed hawk, but he' s such a bad boss you really can' t say he treated her any differently than his own henchmen .
terry: i had him. i went to a fairly well - known distributor, and they said, ‘tom hardy’s never going to make it. ’ lost him. that’s the trouble with working with a studio. this isn’t going to have a huge budget. hawk the slayer was £61, 000. you need to be in a sensible budget area. you need to be able to say, ‘those people are investing in this, i believe i’ve got a good chance of getting their money back, ’ and i believe that if the audience is there, we can get a tv series, which is the ultimate aim .
human sacrifice: hawk rescues baldin from a group of religious nutters who' ve tied him to a raft that they' re trying to set alight with arrows on fire .
keen - eyed fans may recognize the dwarf from our release prisoners of the lost universe. also, the actor playing hawk went on to portray jack’s dad in lost - - hmmm, prisoners of the lost universe. lost. time to dig up your old lost conspiracy theories because there’s something happening here. it’s all connected !
eye scream: voltan' s scar is apparently a result of his being stabbed in the eye with a piece of burning wood by hawk' s girlfriend. the wizard he gets magic pain relief from mentions that it inexplicably refuses to heal, and in fact the flesh seems to be melting .
the stoic: nearly everyone, due to bad, bad acting, but hawk and his elf buddy rarely show any expression other than
intense staring
. gort, baldin and voltan are pretty much the only exceptions, since they can actually act somewhat .
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the pan - galactic gargle blaster (18. 19) is a drink from the hitchhiker' s guide to the galaxy
as you may be aware, the kickstarter campaign was unsuccessful so we are re - evaluating the project. i hope to have news before the end of the year
for us, it’s outside of the usual stuff: we’ve got a fantastic t - shirt. to get them involved, there’s a fan day. terry’s got this fantastic scene that he’s going to direct with gort and hanfer, and there’s a big fight scene in a tavern. we’re asking fans to pay the money, come on the day and be in the movie. we’ve commissioned a coin. hawk is a lord, so he’s got a currency. when people are gambling in the movie they use these silver coins. those coins as a prop will be available as a reward. we’ve had rifftrax, they’re huge hawk fans. as a reward, they will riff hawk. they’re going to do it anyway as a digital download, they will provide it for the film and take the mickey out of it. we’ve done loads of stuff .
all of this is in early stages of planning and a lot of it hinges on hawk the hunter' s kickstarter campaign, which launches on august 30th. the film' s budget is $ 5 million, and marcel, kingsley and company need to raise the final 20 percent, marcel told the guardian earlier this month. for now, kingsley can dream big and hope for the best .
there was talk in 2009 about a sequel entitled
hawk the hunter .
as you have no doubt noticed, there has since been no such movie. as a matter of fact, the message board which announced the sequel has since only received one post. the stars, on the other had, have gone on to successful careers, many showing up in places you may not have realized .
note: the views expressed here are only those of the reviewer (s) .
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, while the second part got 1, 382 and the first 1, 527 .
wwf, the world wrestling federation (10. 20) not the world wildlife fund
: voltan actually specializes in throwing daggers (not throwing knives). when forced into an actual sword fight (after this fails against hawk) he clearly has no idea what he' s doing .
hawk was sponsored by ye olde militarie and industrielle complexe, the dark age arms manufacturer that was eventually closed down by henry viii, as it was (1) richer than him, and (2) had sold siege engines to the pope. this was the medieval equivalent of selling a weaponized ebola virus to kim jong il .
the
don' t panic
sticker (18. 3) is a reference to the hitchhiker' s guide to the galaxy
this is one of those rare early 80' s movies that i love. everything about it is terrible and yet something about it is great! it has the feel of a saturday
matinee
and is certainly an entertaining piece of work (although far from a masterpiece). essentially, this movie is a guilty pleasure. if had to choose between it or
the beastmaster
, i would certainly take hawk the slayer. i recommend this movie as a must see! although i am not blind and can certainly see all of the faults, i still love this movie. i even sampled sound bites from this movie and created a dance mix! (not for commercial purposes... just for fun). if interested, check out the messages boards as i have posted a link to the sound file there .
) to see the enthusiasm was there at the start, but then dropped away dramatically .
top of the pile: trick' r treat - days of the dead ...
idiot ball: the abbess and nuns at the convent juggle a whole host of idiot balls, all based on the belief that voltan isn' t the obviously evil chronic backstabbing disorder shoot the dog bond villain that he is .
baldin: hawk finds baldin tied to a raft and being shot at by priests. those wacky dwarves! in this scene, the audience learns that baldin is really good at eating, drinking and telling bad jokes. he also comes from ironforge. (hawk has attracted criticism from dwarven rights activists for this stereotyped portrayal. dwarf rights activist ricky gervais points out that not all dwarves are fat, drunk and unfunny, even though ricky himself is frequently all three. )
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voltan (jack palance) is pissed that hawk (john terry) has married elaine. he has been stalking elaine for several years, has even spoken to her a couple of times, and once brushed against her boobs. therefore, she is rightfully his. anger and jealousy turn him to evil. (remember - if it' s in hawk, it' s not a cliche. hawk invented this stuff. other people copied it, making it cliched. just like jokes about
it' s built on an old indian burial ground
. it sounds cheesy when you hear it in the shining, but you are wrong, because that' s where it comes from. )
terry: not really, no. the sequel in its original form was just another adventure with hawk and his team. but i opened up the world because of the tv show. with tv, you have to know where you’re going. with dark knight, i only ended up doing the two series, but i knew where it was going, where it would end and what my arc was .
the magnificent seven samurai: there are only five of them (six if you count the sorceress), but it' s pretty overt. a few of the recruitment scenes are even fantasy takes on the ones from the magnificent seven .
the zapruder film is part of the john f. kennedy assassination conspiracy (0. 9 )
wade' s passphrase ,
you have been recruited by the star league to defend the frontier against xur and the ko - dan armada
is from the last starfighter (1. 81 )
baldin, the obligatory dwarf in the movie, brought the expected comedic flare to the film. peter o & apos; farrell would go on to star in several major motion pictures including
harry potter and the chamber of secrets ,
legend ,
and
prisoners of the lost universe .
answer the question, claire
( 17. 58) is a quote from the breakfast club
aside from the fact that the there were instants where the men moan when they die, the lines coming from that elf being extremely wooden to the point of laughable, the cut shots of arrows firing that would even make legolas laugh, the corny acting / lines, and the corny 80' s music that plays whenever the protagonist rides off... watch this while you' re stoned, drunk, or multitasking... - _ -
terry: andrew’s been working with me for a long time, and one day he said, “i’ve had a request for you to do this interview. ” he said, “you ought to write a sequel to hawk”, and i said “i’ve written a sequel to hawk! ” he said “we ought to go out and try and put this together. ” so i got hold of the old script that harry and i had written, and it needed a bit of work on it, so i did that .
i offered to interview them on my blog and help spread the word. i heard crickets back. the social media campaign for the kickstarter was pitiful .
andrew: it’s all down to the kickstarter. it’s going to be interesting, terry’s done so much work on not just the script, but the background he’s built into the world for the tv series. the sequel really is a cinematic pilot, basically. and we’ve got interest from actors that are aware of the situation. it’s quite an exciting time .
gort: hawk arrives shortly after gort has beaten up an angry mob. gort is a giant, and therefore excellent at being stupid and tall. gort is also very bad at acting: bad enough to appear in several carry on films .
dwindling party: two of the party members are dead by the end, and one is grieviously injured .
horrible judge of character: the nuns are utterly convinced they can trust the dark one at his word .
pay evil unto evil :
the end truly justifies the means !
uh, sure ...
the campaign launched on august 30, and ran until october 1, hoping to raise a cool half - a - million dollars, the final 20 per cent of the finances needed to get the film made .
archer and the sorceress i am glad to see that someone else remembers this movie. in the us, it was known as the archer: fugitive from the empire and was a failed tv series pilot. i wish it was available on dvd in the us .
the finished film evokes both derision and devotion. apart from terry (who had been a carpenter) and palance, it has an extraordinary cast: patricia “rocky horror” quinn, harry andrews, warren clarke, roy kinnear, annette crosbie, cheryl campbell. marcel readily admits the fights are sketchy and the dialogue between the giant (bernard bresslaw, 6ft 7in) and the dwarf (peter o’farrell, 5ft 6in) is “cheesy” but hawk was meant for a family audience. he does wish he’d had more to spend on effects, though: “most of the flying - sword sequences involved me throwing it to the actor. ”
and the warrior and the sorceress, which is the closest thing i' ve ever seen to a dark sun movie. i' m glad i' m not the only one to think this! : cool :
“the budget is $ 5m – half an episode of game of thrones – and we’re short 20% , ” says marcel. “so andrew [ grocock, co - producer ] suggested a kickstarter campaign. ” this will be formally launched after a screening of the original film followed by a director’s q & a during frightfest, the horror film festival, in london in august. marcel hopes to start shooting in november. he also has plans for a tv series, “the third part of the trilogy”, called hawk the destroyer, which he reckons could run for five years .
has been' in the works' for more than 30 years, you have to question some of the decisions made as the film raced towards its final hurdle .
i like novelisations of films to expand on the original, providing new insights into the characters, building on the backstory. this, unfortunately, doesn' t .
i would assume that' s the shriek of a hawk... ;) that' s what i thought but i was told no! in my defence, i was ten and didn' t know a thing about birds - my dad told me the producers had got the wrong sound effect and it was definitely an eagle. i' m going to have to have a few words with my dad the next time i see him... : )
fans would get in touch asking if he’d agree to novelisation, if they could buy the mindsword. grocock’s theory is that hawk touched a chord, coming at the end of the austere 1970s and the start of a brave new 1980s world of atari computers, vhs recorders and dungeons and dragons role - playing games. famous nerds who grew up at that time seem to bear this out. “bill bailey is a huge fan, simon pegg is a massive fan, ” says grocock. another fan, rock wizard rick wakeman, has apparently agreed to write the music for the sequel .
in that voltan returns and this time he’s after the dark sword which was made before the mind sword, the dark sword is evil and has been hidden away by a troll. if voltan gets his hands on it, we’re in deep trouble so there’s a race to find the dark sword. we also see the development of hawk beginning to understand the power of the mind sword. we’ve just put up a prologue on youtube which gives away a little bit about the stones. there were three stones and one of them ends up with the wizards, who are in fact elves and one ends up in the sword – the other one i can’t disclose! they were discovered by a rock - finding troll who’s digging away in a tiny tunnel. he breaks through into this gigantic cavern where he finds this skyscraper - sized crystal buried in the ground. around the crystal are three shining stones, the three sisters. he grabs them and runs but as he does so the giant crystal bursts into life and that’s when magic is born in the land. it’s all to do with crystal magic and in the sequel we begin to see how it all works, why it works and i had to reinvent everything to give a reason for the mindstone .
curb - stomp battle: two guys with automatic weapons and a powerful witch vs. ordinary medieval soldiers. even without the guy with the magic sword (and the dwarf with the whip) it would have been a walkover .
in this, you have to have a bigger view of the world, and so it was fairly obvious to me to start from, what was going to be the key to the series: magic. and where did the magic come from? magic came from the stones. where did the stones come from? and then bit by bit i rebuilt the whole thing and created a massive world .
films, playing sparrow; you always get extra from those sorts of people because they’re such distinctive character actors. but we’ve got to look to the long - term. we want to know that whoever’s going to play hawk is going to come and stay with us for the series. i think we’ll probably end up with complete newcomers for all the main parts. there is one troll who’s about twice the size of a human and i’ve always wanted brian blessed for that, he’d be perfect .
caroline munro (from the golden voyage of sinbad, the spy who loved me, dracula ad 1972, starcrash, maniac, the last horror show, sl ...
magrathea is a planet in douglas adams' s the hitchhiker' s guide to the galaxy (4. 13 )
with the stolen gold as bait for voltan, the trap is set. the fellowship lie in wait for voltan and his men. but voltan doesn' t appear. instead, his useless adopted son drogo turns up, without the kidnapped nun. the heroes refuse to hand over the gold until the nun is safe. drogo is angry .
i am no messenger ,
he says .
but i do bring a message. the message of death !
andrew: you make it, and the generation in which it was made watch it and go away, and then their kids discover it, and they start to like it. because it’s got two generations of fandom, it becomes a cult, you’ve got an older and a younger generation, it becomes a cult, because the younger generation discover it, and the older generation say, ‘that was ours’, and that’s what happened to hawk .
harry robertson died in 1996 and jack palance in 2006. john terry went on to appear in lost (as jack’s dad) but still gets asked to sign hawk memorabilia at sci - fi conventions. because hawk wouldn’t die. “it still sells well globally, ” says grocock. “scandinavian countries, america, south america. it’s big in japan, south africa. you still get cheques from germany, terry. ” marcel adds cheerfully: “yes, about £12. 65 last time i looked. i’ve never made any money from it. ”
not forgetting the sword and the sorcerer urltoken too i love that movie. it might' ve been a better conan movie than conan the barbarian. just as good, anyway .
good guy hawk (john terry) and his evil brother, voltan (jack palance), both want control of
the power ,
a magical flying sword. this comic - bookish exercise in sword - and - sorcery gibberish is dragged down by its excess of slow - motion battle scenes, though palance makes an enjoyable villain .
bigger bad: voltan' s dark master. he never gets directly involved in the plot, but is clearly manipulating things behind the scenes. he' s also shown to have great magical powers, including the ability to resurrect the dead .
everyone calls him barkeep: the closest thing to a name that the blind witch seems to have is
woman
.
hoist by his own petard: the hunchback is killed by the exact method by which he threatens gort' s life .
although planned as the start of a franchise amid much local publicity, the movie was released in the uk as the supporting feature to saturn 3 (1980) before it was picked up for theatrical distribution in some territories such as north america.
hawk the slayer is a 1980 british sword and sorcery adventure fantasy film directed by terry marcel and starring john terry and jack palance . 
hawk the slayer is a 1980 british sword and sorcery adventure fantasy film directed by terry marcel and starring john terry and jack palance.
hawk the slayer is a 1980 british sword and sorcery adventure fantasy film directed by terry marcel and starring john terry and jack palance.