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Merlin is a 3 hour made-for-television movie released in 1998 that retells the famous legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin. Sam Neill stars in the title role in a story that covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot but also the phase, supposedly in the history of the British Isles, that had preceded it. Image File history File links Merlin_(movie)_1. ...
Steve Barron (born May 4, 1956) is a director and producer, best known for directing the films Coneheads (1993), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and the innovative music video for a-has Take on Me. ...
Dyson Lovell is a film producer and actor born on the 28 August 1940. ...
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Peter Barnes, (January 10, 1931–July 1, 2004), was an English playwright and screenwriter. ...
Sam Neill (born Nigel John Dermot Neill), DCNZM, OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand-Australian film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. ...
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an Academy Award nominated English actress. ...
Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated British actress, known for her roles in the films A Room with a View, Howards End, and Fight Club. ...
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and former supermodel. ...
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning British theatre and film actor. ...
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (IPA: [rÊtxÉ›r ulsÉ›n hÊŒuÉ›r]) (born in Breukelen, January 23, 1944) is a Dutch film actor. ...
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. ...
Lena Headey (born on 3 October 1973, in Bermuda) is a British actress. ...
Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born March 23, 1949 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African orchestral film score composer. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Merlins Apprentice is a 2006 sequel to the hit TV miniseries Merlin (1998), featuring Miranda Richardson and Sam Neill reprising their roles as the Lady of the Lake and Merlin respectively. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
For other uses, see King Arthur (disambiguation). ...
Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys (Merlin the Wise); also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the Wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in Arthurian legends, starting with Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae. ...
Sam Neill (born Nigel John Dermot Neill), DCNZM, OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand-Australian film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. ...
This article is about the mythical castle. ...
Plot
As christianity spreads over Britain, the power of the pagan goddess Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson) is waning, and her world of magic faces inminent extinction. In order to save it, Mab decides to create a semi-human magical being, a wizard that will, she believes, bring people back to the "Old Ways", that is, the pagan religion. She creates Merlin by means of magic, which means that although the child is born from a mortal mother named Elissa, but has no mortal father. Elissa dies shortly after giving birth to Merlin, leaving the child to be raised by Ambrosia, an old woman who used to be a pagan but has since rejected Mab and the "Old Ways". Ambrosia refuses to give the new born Merlin to Mab, arguing that love is needed to raise a child, and Mab cannot provide that. Mab seems to agree on this, and leaves, but warns Ambrosia that one day she will return and take him away. Merlin grows up with no knowledge of his true heritage, until one day, he uses magic for the first time to save a young woman named Nimue, daughter of a nobleman. That's when Mab considers him to be ready. Somewhat unwillingly, Merlin travels to Mab's underground palace, where she plans to train him in magic until he becomes the greatest wizard of all times. Merlin spends some time learning magical skills from Frik (Martin Short), Mab's gnome sidekick, but he doesn´t really like magic and eventually leaves for his old home when he learns that his foster mother Ambrosia is dying. Unfortunately, he arrives late and finds Mab in Ambrosias' home. Furious, he believes Mab killed her, and swears to get his revenge and use his magical powers only to defeat Mab. Years later, Merlin joins Uther Pendragon, the enemy of the tyrant king of Britain Vortigern. Merlin helps Uther win the war against Vortigern (whom he kills himself with the aid of the magical sword Excalibur), believing that Uther will be a just, decent king. However, Mab frustrates his efforts by weakening Uther and making him commit adultery with a nobleman's wife named Igraine. Igraine gives birth to Arthur, who is taken by Merlin as an apprentice not in magic, but in ethic and everything he needs to become the perfect king Merlin wishes to create. Once again, Mab intervenes and manages to get Morgan le Fay, Arthur's half sister, to seduce him. Morgan le Fay then gives birth to a son, Mordred, whom Mab raises to become Arthur's downfall and to bring back the Old Ways. However, Arthur and Mordred kill each other in the film's last battle, and thus both Merlin and Mab lose their protegees and last hopes. Furious, Merlin returns to Camelot, where he finds Mab sitting in the Round Table. Frik, the gnome, explains that Mab is weakened, so Merlin engages her in a magic duel that drains her strenghts even more. Unable to vanquish Merlin, Mab mocks him and tells him that he and his human followers can´t destroy her, but Merlin knows that she is now weak enough. He turns his back on her telling her that everyone will forget her. Everyone leaves, ignoring Mab's furious calls, and soon, she fades away just the way the had feared from the begining. Pagan may refer to: A believer in Paganism or Neopaganism Bagan, a city in Myanmar also known as Pagan Pagan (album), the 6th album by Celtic metal band Cruachan Pagan Island, of the Northern Mariana Islands Pagan Lorn, a metal band from Luxembourg, Europe (1994-1998) Pagans Mind, is...
In English folklore, Queen Mab is a fairy. ...
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an Academy Award nominated English actress. ...
Production It was produced by Dyson Lovell and directed by Steve Barron. Dyson Lovell is a film producer and actor born on the 28 August 1940. ...
Steve Barron (born May 4, 1956) is a director and producer, best known for directing the films Coneheads (1993), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and the innovative music video for a-has Take on Me. ...
The story is by Edward Khmara with the teleplay written by David Stevens and Peter Barnes. David Stevens is an Amercan Actor Filmography Mattress Man Commercial (2003) (V) - David Punch-Drunk Love (2002) - David No Dogs Allowed (2002) - Marko The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001) (TV) - Rusty Hawkins Twice Today (2001) - Chris Hunter Baby Bedlam (2000) - Motel Clerk Cage in Box Elder (2000) Kissed by an...
Peter Barnes, (January 10, 1931–July 1, 2004), was an English playwright and screenwriter. ...
The cast includes John Gielgud (Constant), Rutger Hauer (Vortigern), Helena Bonham Carter (Morgan le Fay), Isabella Rossellini (Nimue), Lena Headey (Guinevere) and Martin Short (Frik the gnome). Nicholas Clay, who played Lancelot in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur, has a small role as Guinevere's father, Lord Leo. Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning British theatre and film actor. ...
Constans was the eldest son of the usurping Emperor Constantine III and was a Roman Caesar under his father. ...
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (IPA: [rÊtxÉ›r ulsÉ›n hÊŒuÉ›r]) (born in Breukelen, January 23, 1944) is a Dutch film actor. ...
Vortigern (also spelled Vortiger and Vortigen, and in Welsh Gwrtheyrn), was a 5th century warlord in Britain, a leading ruler among the Britons (Brythons). ...
Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated British actress, known for her roles in the films A Room with a View, Howards End, and Fight Club. ...
Morgan le Fay, by Anthony Frederick Sandys (1829 - 1904), 1864 (Birmingham Art Gallery): A spell-brewing Morgaine distinctly of Tennysons generation Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain, Morgana and other variants, is a powerful sorceress and sometime antagonist of King Arthur and Guinevere in the Arthurian legend. ...
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and former supermodel. ...
In Arthurian legend, The Lady of the Lake gave King Arthur the sword known as Excalibur. ...
Lena Headey (born on 3 October 1973, in Bermuda) is a British actress. ...
For other uses, see Guinevere (disambiguation). ...
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. ...
Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay (September 18, 1946 - May 25, 2000) was a British actor. ...
For other uses, see Lancelot (disambiguation) and Sir Lancelot (disambiguation). ...
John Boorman (born January 18, 1933 in Shepperton, Surrey, United Kingdom), is a British filmmaker, currently based in Ireland, best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, and The General. ...
Excalibur is a 1981 film which retells the legend of King Arthur. ...
King Leondegrance (sometimes Leodegrance, or some other minor variation) was, in Arthurian legend, the father of Queen Guinevere. ...
Although the costumes used in this movie appear to be more historically accurate than those found in Excalibur (with Celtic and Roman-style armor in place of full suits of plate), there are also sprites, a dragon, a talking mountain (voiced by James Earl Jones) and a talking horse (voiced by Gielgud) that ensure the magical element is well-represented. This article needs cleanup. ...
James Earl Jones (b. ...
Illustrator Alan Lee served as the film's conceptual designer. Alan Lee 2003 in (New Zealand) Alan Lee (born August 20, 1947) is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer. ...
Sequel Hallmark has filmed a sequel in Vancouver, Merlin's Apprentice, with Neill and Richardson reprising their roles. The miniseries was broadcast in 2006. Merlins Apprentice is a 2006 sequel to the hit TV miniseries Merlin (1998), featuring Miranda Richardson and Sam Neill reprising their roles as the Lady of the Lake and Merlin respectively. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The film has been shown on Hallmark Channel and TV1000. The Hallmark Channel is a cable television network that broadcasts in over 100 countries. ...
TV1000 is a set of cable movie channels, broadcasted in the Scandinavian countries, and owned by MTG (Modern Times Group). ...
See also List of films based on Arthurian legend Films based on the Arthurian legend are many and varied. ...
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