Starring a 22-year-old Tom Cruise (Top Gun Maverick) and 16-year-old Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Legend is a beautifully filmed (if not particularly complex) allegory about the power of true love and the eternal struggle of good vs. evil.
Tom Cruise reportedly wasn't happy with the American cut of this movie and wouldn't talk about it for years because of it. He very much encouraged fans to go with the Director's Cut.
Mia Sara landed a succession of leading roles early in her career. The Brooklynite began acting in commercials and on the ABC daytime soap "All My Children" at age 13. By 16, she had made her screen debut opposite Tom Cruise in Ridley Scott's fantasy "Legend" (1985) as Princess Lili, the personification of innocence.
Though Legend may never achieve full-on classic motion picture status, the more fleshed-out director's cut proves that Ridley Scott's lovingly-crafted fairytale always deserved better than it got from both film critics and paying audiences alike. Legend remains a stunning faerie floss fantasy.
The film was written by William Hjortsberg and produced by Arnon Milchan, but the behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film is in itself a legend. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios using the 007 Stage, named after, and used for many James Bond films.
The horns were too heavy at first, even with the brace built into the makeup. Bottin had to reduce the weight so as not to strain Tim Curry's back, making them so light that Scott says it was “weird” and “disarming” to pick one up and not feel any weight. The fiberglass horns were 3 ft.
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea.
The singer-songwriter has won an Oscar for best original song in 2015 for "Glory" and a Tony for producing the Vroadway musical "Jitney." He has a whopping 36 Grammy nominations and 12 wins.
Parents need to know that Legend is a dark fantasy full of menacing and sometimes violent imagery that may terrify younger children. Actors in scary makeup and costumes play goblins representing a devil-like Lord of Darkness, who seeks to eradicate good and bring back a permanent winter of evil throughout the world.
For inspiration, Scott read classic fairy tales, including ones by the Brothers Grimm. From that, he conceived a story about a young hermit who is transformed into a hero when he battles the Darkness in order to rescue a beautiful princess and release the world from a wintery curse.
In author Marie Lu's debut novel Legend, 15-year-old June Iparis is the Republic's protégé, born to influential parents into a wealthy family, but raised by her older brother Metias, as June's parents died in a car crash when she was young.
Cruise spent his childhood trying to hide his dyslexia from his peers. Diagnosed at the age of seven, Cruise describes his younger self as a "functional illiterate". He could barely read in high school or through his earliest roles.
As one of Hollywood's hottest leading men, Tom Cruise knows that finding love can be a risky business. Cruise has been married three times: to Mimi Rogers from 1987 to 1990, to Nicole Kidman from 1990 to 2001 and to Katie Holmes from 2006 to 2012. He has also romanced Cher, Heather Locklear and more A-listers.
It flopped HARD at the box office, and is often blamed for killing fantasy movies in general until Peter Jackson came along with Lord of the Rings. Nope, Legend is not a good movie. But it is a GREAT movie. Pretty much everyone agrees you don't watch Legend for the story, you watch it for the jaw-dropping visuals.
Scott and screenwriter William Hjortsberg put so much love into Darkness that they neglected to make the side of light anywhere near as compelling. Tom Cruise's young hero Jack, a Peter Pan/Mowgli-esque boy of the forest who dons armour and a sword to save his love Lili, simply isn't that memorable a hero.
Filming also took place in Caradoc Street in Greenwich, in the Cedra Estate on Cazenove Road and in Gibson Gardens, both of which are in Hackney. Principal photography started on 12 June 2014.
During the "It" shoot, Curry's Pennywise makeup took three hours to apply. On "Legend," it had been six-and-a-half. Curry admitted that he could do without these intense application processes, but once he was actually performing, he enjoyed himself.
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, and actor.
Daniel Day-Lewis has won the most Academy Awards for best actor (three), and a number of actors have received two such Oscars, including Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks, both of whom won in consecutive years. Below is a list of the winning actors and the films for which they won. The year is when the award was presented.
The thing that really helped us is, we had a great body double, this kid Jacob Tomuri. He was Tom's stunt double in Mad Max. They're not identical but they look similar. HARDY: Jacob played both the brothers, every time the brothers were together.
Since the pair were imprisoned in 1969, almost all of their biographers have insisted that Ronnie - certified insane and by far the more violent and unpredictable of the twins - was responsible for leading his brother astray.
But it is less likely that you've heard about Nancy Kray. Daughter of Charlie Kray, the older brother of the twins, Nancy is one of the last surviving custodians to the more intimate world of one of the world's most renowned families.
