Dragon Hunters | |
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French theatrical release film poster
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Directed by |
Guillaume Ivernel Arthur Qwak |
Produced by |
Philippe Delarue Tilo Seiffert |
Written by |
Frédéric Engel-Lenoir Arthur Qwak |
Based on |
Dragon Hunters by Arthur Qwak |
Starring |
French version: Vincent Lindon Patrick Timsit Marie Drion English version: Forest Whitaker Rob Paulsen Mary Mouser |
Music by | Klaus Badelt |
Cinematography | Arthur Qwak |
Edited by | Soline Guyonneau |
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Distributed by | Futurikon Bac Films Icon Productions Universum Film (UFA) |
Release date
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Running time
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82 minutes |
Country | France Luxembourg Germany |
Language | French |
Budget | €12,000,000 |
Box office | $12,235,843 |
Dragon Hunters: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | ||||
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Soundtrack album / Film score by Klaus Badelt | ||||
Released | April 5, 2008 | |||
Recorded | 2008 | |||
Genre | Movie Soundtrack, Film Score | |||
Length | 62:40 | |||
Label | Skylark Sound Studios | |||
Producer | Klaus Badelt | |||
Klaus Badelt film scores chronology | ||||
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Dragon Hunters (French: Chasseurs de dragons) is a 2008 French-German-Luxembourgish 3D computer-animated adventure action fantasy comedy-drama family film and fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters, written by Frédéric Engel-Lenoir, directed by creator Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel with music by Klaus Badelt and produced by Philippe Delarue and Tilo Seiffert. It features the voices of Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Marie Drion in the French version and Forest Whitaker, Rob Paulsen and Mary Mouser in the English version. The film was produced by Futurikon, and co-produced by LuxAnimation, Mac Guff Ligne and Trixter. It shares the same creative universe as the Dragon Hunters TV series. It was released on March 26, 2008 in France and on March 20, 2008 in Russia and New Zealand. It was also distributed by Icon Productions and Bac Films. The film received a Cristal Award nomination for Best Feature and it earned $12,235,843 on a €12,000,000 budget. Dragon Hunters was released on DVD on November 5, 2008 in France by Warner Home Video.
The world has become a vast arrangement of floating islands of varying sizes and shapes. This dizzy universe is populated with rogues, peasants, and petty lords. Their main concerns are for survival, for this world has become plagued with hungry creatures, who are wreaking havoc, known as dragons.