Season of the Witch (2011 film)

Season of the Witch
Relativity's theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dominic Sena
Written by	Bragi F. Schut
Produced by	Charles Roven Alex Gartner
Starring	Nicolas Cage Ron Perlman Stephen Campbell Moore Claire Foy Stephen Graham Ulrich Thomsen Robert Sheehan Christopher Lee
Cinematography	Amir Mokri
Edited by	Mark Helfrich Dan Zimmerman Bob Ducsay
Music by	Atli Örvarsson
Production companies	Atlas Entertainment Relativity Media
Distributed by	Relativity Media Rogue
Release dates	January 4, 2011 (2011-01-04) (New York premiere) January 7, 2011 (2011-01-07) (United States)
Running time	95 minutes [1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million[2]
Box office	$91.6 million[1]

Season of the Witch is a 2011 American supernatural action-adventure film directed by Dominic Sena, written by Bragi Schut, and starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman.^[3] Cage and Perlman star as Teutonic Knights who return from the Crusades to find their homeland devastated by the Black Death. Two church elders accuse a young woman (Claire Foy) of being a witch responsible for the plague. They command the two knights to transport her to a distant monastery so the monks can lift her curse.^[4] The film reunited Sena and Cage, who had previously worked together on Gone in 60 Seconds.

Development on the film began in 2000 when Schut's spec script was purchased by MGM. The project moved from MGM to Columbia Pictures to Relativity Media, where the film was finally produced by Charles Roven and Alex Gartner. Filming took place primarily in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. Season of the Witch was released on January 7, 2011, in the United States, Canada, and several other territories.