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Overview

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7.6/10   1,674 votes
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Director:
Andy Wilson
Writers:
Mervyn Peake (novels)
Malcolm McKay (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
10 June 2000 (USA) more
Tagline:
77 generations built the kingdom of Gormenghast... Will one kitchen boy bring it down? more
Plot:
A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom. full summary
Awards:
4 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
Very Disappointing - Bring on Peter Jackson! more (61 total)

Cast

  (Series Cast overview, first billed only)
Celia Imrie ... Lady Gertrude
John Sessions ... Dr. Prunesquallor
Warren Mitchell ... Barquentine
George Yiasoumi ... Bookman
Ian Richardson ... Lord Groan
Neve McIntosh ... Lady Fuchsia
June Brown ... Nannie Slagg

Christopher Lee ... Flay
Richard Griffiths ... Swelter

Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Steerpike
Zoë Wanamaker ... Clarice Groan
Lynsey Baxter ... Cora Groan
Fiona Shaw ... Irma Prunesquallor
Olga Sosnovska ... Keda
Eric Sykes ... Mollocks
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Additional Details

Runtime:
232 min (4 parts)
Country:
UK | USA
Language:
English
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
To create a sense of scale and depth when they were photographed, the castle miniatures were placed into large tanks of water to which disinfectant (Jeyes Fluid) had also been added to make it slightly cloudy. The post production house responsible for compositing and other special effects were in awe of the skills and ingenuity of the traditional model makers, but exasperated by the variability of the images that this "organic" method generated, making their colour-correction and image matching tasks much more difficult than with computer generated images. more
Quotes:
Irma: [shouts] Why do you never listen to me? more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Goodbye 2000 (2000) (TV) more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Very Disappointing - Bring on Peter Jackson!, 1 August 2004
Author: pwilson-10 from Brisbane, Australia

to a fan and repeat reader of the books, this was a very disappointing production. it really had none of the atmosphere, depth of characters, sense of age, menace or drama of the books. instead it was bright and comical, clumsy and light-weight - really inappropriate and even amateurish. the cast had incredible potential, but they were given nothing to work with.

i only hope that peter jackson might take this on one day and do these books the justice they deserve.

to a die-hard Gormenghast fan, i'd say see it by all means, but be prepared for a pretty big let-down!!

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