Krull - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Krull or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Krull

[riley]

As a promotional gimmick for the film, the studio created an essay contest for people to get married dressed in costumes from the movie. A dozen lucky winners were married off in a one-day only ceremony in 1983. The gimmick was dropped afterwards since it garnered no additional press coverage for the film.

[lonnie]

Lysette Anthony revealed in a 2018 interview that Harvey Weinstein raped her when she was 19, right after she was cast for this film. She said he was a rock journalist at the time interested in getting into the movie business. They had been friends for about a year, but then he showed up at her apartment one morning. She was only wearing a nightgown and he suddenly pushed her against a coat rack, and then onto the floor where he raped her. She said she tried to push him off but he was too heavy and fat.

[maureen]

For five months, a cast and crew of several hundred created the planet of Krull, inhabiting ten sound stages and 23 different sets.

[jessie]

Part of an early-to-mid 1980s cycle of sword and sorcery motion pictures.

[jamie]

Show-business trade-paper 'Variety' described the movie as "Excalibur (1981) meets Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)".

[claude]

This film was a commercial failure, panned by critics and even won a Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Picture in 1983. Despite that, it has since gained a cult following.

[janice]

Many movie posters for the film featured a long preamble that read: "Beyond our time, beyond our universe . . . there is a planet besieged by alien invaders, where a young king must rescue his love from the clutches of the Beast. Or risk the death of his world. KRULL. A world light-years beyond your imagination".

[victoria]

According to special make-up designer Nick Maley, the special effects character of the Beast was "the first self-contained animatronic suit... providing not only facial movement but also lung, heart and body-fluid movement all without a single external cable! . . .The Emerald Sear transformation puppet, which was intercut with a non 3-D transformation make-up, attracted the welcome attention of the great Dick Smith".

[kim]

A short behind-the-scenes promotional documentary about the making-of the film was made for television. Entitled Journey to Krull (1983) it is now available on the DVD for the movie.

[ethel]

Liam Neeson's Keegan's death is similar to that of his character Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).

[duane]

A gymnasium, equipped with an Olympic-size trampoline, was set up in a vacant storeroom to facilitate the forty stuntmen who had been cast.

[lynn]

Actress Lysette Anthony portrayed a character, Princess Lyssa, who had a first name similar to her own.

[lena]

A hand that could physically transform into a "Changeling Claw" was developed for the movie, but due to time constraints could not be developed in time and was not used in the film. The piece later was completed for Tobe Hooper's movie Lifeforce (1985).

[gerald]

Freddie Jones and Francesca Annis appeared together again in Dune (1984).

[ruby]

One of two movies directed by Peter Yates that were first released theatrically in 1983. The other was The Dresser (1983). Both were produced by Columbia Pictures.