![]() Singer has described the film as an exploration of "the story that inspired the story that you read to your kids". ![]() Jack bravely volunteers to help rescue the princess, but there's a traitor amongst the King's allies, and the giants now have a passage to Albion. During an unlikely encounter with the errant princess Isabelle, a massive beanstalk erupts from below Jack's house, carrying both it and Isabelle off to the airborne land of the giants. Meanwhile, down below, well-meaning farm boy Jack winds up exchanging a horse for a pouch of magic beans. In this version, a whole bunch of giant beings live a resentful existence, imprisoned in a land between heaven and Earth by a mystical curse. While the so-called new seriousness has stretched as far as Batman and Bond, it seldom feels less at home than in a fairytale film, and we're all left flabbergasted at how over-explaining something can be just as bad as under-thinking it. ![]() Long-time collaborators Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie have come to this project, which started out as a remake of the stop-motion-tastic 1962 film Jack The Giant Killer, and put their own spin on it, and so like so many recent films in its sub-genre, Jack The Giant Slayer seems like a film that is stricken by seriousness.
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