History Trivia / Beowulf2007

* TalkingToHimself: Both Beowulf and the Dragon are voiced and motion-captured by Creator/RayWinstone.

** While brainstorming casting ideas with Neil Gaiman, Zemeckis immediately rejected the latter's suggestion of Creator/CrispinGlover due to still remembering how hard he was to work with while shooting ''Film/BackToTheFuture''. He quickly changed his mind after realizing that most of the problems he had with Glover back then (namely him being unable to hit his mark or understand how scenes flowed together) would be rendered irrelevant by the motion capture.

** Grendel's design was going to be much more humanlike, but they changed it in order to make him more monstrous.

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/AngelinaJolie plays Grendel's mother, who is supposed to be centuries old. Also, Grendel is played by Creator/CrispinGlover, who is 11 years older than she is.

* BoxOfficeBomb: A rather unusual case, in that it actually made a decent amount of money. But its budget was so high that it had no hope of recouping it.

* FlipFlopOfGod: Avary speculated that Grendel's Mother mated with humans in order to rebuild her demonkind. However the novelization, which is based on his original script, states she had a son with Beowulf only in order to use it against him in revenge for Grendel's death, not out of any reproductive motivation. It's consistently explained she avoids contact with humans instead of seeking it.
* PlayingGertrude: Creator/AngelinaJolie plays Grendel's mother, who is supposed to be centuries old. Grendel is played by Creator/CrispinGlover, who is 11 years older than she is.

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/AngelinaJolie plays Grendel's mother, who is supposed to be centuries old. Grendel is played by Creator/CrispinGlover, who is older than she is.

** Avary and Gaiman had written a talky, slow confrontation between Beowulf and the Dragon in order to avoid a dynamic battle that could result too expensive to portray in live action. This changed when the project was turned into a CGI production, as the lack of practical effects and shooting locations meant Avary and Gaiman could write whatever they wanted without adding one dollar to the budget. The scene was changed to the long battle-chase shown in the final product, although part of its original dialogue was still used by Caitlin Kiernan for the film's novelization.

** Avary and Gaiman had written a talky, slow confrontation between Beowulf and the Dragon in order to avoid a dynamic battle that could result too expensive to portray in live action. This changed when the project was turned into a CGI production, as the lack of practical effects and shooting places ameant Avary and Gaiman could write whatever they wanted without adding a dollar to the budget. The scene was changed to the long, battle-chase portrayed in the final product, although part of its original dialogue was still used by Caitlin Kiernan for the film's novelization.

* CreatorsApathy: Creator/RobertZemeckis openly expressed his hatred for the poem on which it was based, so all the nuance and meaning of the poem is completely ignored, radically changing the story and essentially making it an InNameOnly adaptation.
* TalkingToHimself: Both Beowulf and the Dragon are voiced and motion-captured by Creator/RayWinstone.

* TalkingToHimself: Both Beowulf and the Dragon are voiced and motion-captured by Creator/RayWinstone.
* TheyJustDidntCare: Creator/RobertZemeckis openly expressed his hatred for the poem on which it was based, so all the nuance and meaning of the poem is completely ignored, radically changing the story and essentially making it an InNameOnly adaptation.