Lionheart (1987 film)
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| Directed by | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| Produced by |
Talia Shire Stanley O'Toole |
| Screenplay by |
Menno Meyjes Richard Outten |
| Story by | Menno Meyjes |
| Starring |
Eric Stoltz Gabriel Byrne |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Alec Mills |
| Edited by |
David Bretherton Richard Haines |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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104 minutes |
| Language | English |
Lionheart, also known as Lionheart: The Children's Crusade, is an adventure film of 1987 directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and produced by Talia Shire and Stanley O'Toole. Shire's brother, Francis Ford Coppola, initially planned to direct the film but instead opted to be executive producer along with Shire's husband, Jack Schwartzman. The screenplay was written by Menno Meyjes and Richard Outten from a story by Meyjes. The composer Jerry Goldsmith wrote the score. The film was released in August 1987 and distributed by Orion Pictures.
Loosely based on the historical Children's Crusade, the story follows an exiled young knight, played by Eric Stoltz, who leads a band of orphans to join the Third Crusade with King Richard the Lionheart while protecting the children from the Black Prince (Gabriel Byrne), a disillusioned crusader turned child slave trader (not to be confused with the real-life Edward, the Black Prince).
Lionheart was a big budget movie filmed in Hungary and Portugal utilizing several castles and hundreds of Slavic children hired as extras. The movie was Schaffner’s penultimate film and represented the final collaboration between the director and his friend Jerry Goldsmith (together they previously worked on Planet of the Apes, Patton, Papillon, and The Boys from Brazil).
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