Jack the Giant Slayer

Jack the Giant Slayer
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBryan Singer
Screenplay by
Story by
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNewton Thomas Sigel
Edited by
Music byJohn Ottman
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • February 26, 2013 (2013-02-26) (Hollywood)
  • March 1, 2013 (2013-03-01) (United States)
Running time
114 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$185–200 million[2][3]
Box office$197 million[4]

Jack the Giant Slayer (previously titled Jack the Giant Killer) is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie and Dan Studney, from a story by Lemke and David Dobkin. The film, based on the British fairy tales "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Jack and the Beanstalk", stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy, Eddie Marsan and Ewan McGregor. The film tells the story of Jack, a young farmhand who must rescue a princess from a race of giants after inadvertently opening a gateway to their land in the sky.

Development of Jack the Giant Slayer began in 2005, when Lemke first pitched the idea. D. J. Caruso was hired to direct the film in January 2009, but in September of that year, Caruso was replaced by Singer, who hired McQuarrie and Studney to rework the script. The main characters were cast between February and March 2011, and principal photography began in April 2011 in England with locations in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. The release of the film was moved back in post-production to allow more time for special effects and marketing.

Jack the Giant Slayer premiered on February 26, 2013, in Hollywood. It was released theatrically in the United States on March 1, 2013, receiving mixed reviews from critics and was a box office bomb, earning $197 million worldwide against the budget of $185–200 million.

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  3. ^ "2013 Feature Film Study" (PDF). FilmL.A. March 6, 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 4, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference BOM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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