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‘Medieval’: First Stills Of Ben Foster & Michael Caine In Historical Action-Drama Shooting In Czech Republic
EXCLUSIVE: Here are some striking first look stills from the production of Medieval, the historical action-drama starring Ben Foster, Michael Caine, Til Schweiger, Sophie Lowe, Matthew Goode and William Mosely.
Currently shooting in Czech Republic, director Petr Jákl’s feature is inspired by the origin story of 14th century warlord Jan Zizka of Trocnov (Ben Foster), who along with his band of mercenaries became entangled with an heiress and battled a rival King in a struggle for greater freedom for the Czech people.
Caine plays Lord Boresh who is the right hand of the Czech King Wenceslaus IV and Goode plays King Sigismund of Hungary and Croatia.
Jákl wrote the screenplay and is producing alongside Cassian Elwes, and Double Tree Entertainment LLC. The film is produced with the support of private investors, the Czech Film Fund, the Prague Film Fund and Creative Europe – Media. Additional support comes from Middle Bohemia Region, the Capital City of Prague and the President of the Senate of Parliament in the Czech Republic. Highland Film Group handles sales.
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Petr Jákl: Jan Žižka movie is “Braveheart about a Czech hero”
“When I was young I of course knew about Jan Žižka from school, but he was not such an interesting figure to me at that time. I was more into Vikings, or Braveheart.
“When I grew up, some people like Marek Dobeš or Michal Petruš came to me and told me that they have a script about a young Jan Žižka and so we started talking about doing a movie. We hired other screenwriters like Petr Bok, who also wrote a really good script, and then I started to re-write it on my own together with my father who was helping me.
Photo: Stanislav Honzík, © J.B.J. Film
“The idea of Jan Žižka basically started about 11 years ago for me. I thought that it would be great to do a movie like Braveheart about a Czech hero, because he deserves that. I am a big Czech patriot and I wanted to show everybody what a great history we have, how beautiful our castles and landscapes are. For example, we show the 15th century Charles Bridge in the movie.”
Going into the script, what sort of research did you do about Žižka and his period? The movie is set in 1402, so he would be about 42 years old, no?
“It depends when he was born. It looks like it could have been the 1360s, but nobody knows that. In any case, he probably would have been in hi
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