REIGN OF FIRE
Year: 2002
USA: Touchstone Pictures
UK: Buena Vista International
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Alexander Siddig, Randall Carlton, Doug Cockle, Maree Duffy, Duncan Keegan, Rory Keenan, Alice Krige, Scott Moutter, Benny Nieves
Director: Rob Bowman
Country: USA
UK: 101 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense action violence
UK Certificate: 12 contains moderate violence, language, and fantasy horror
USA Release Date: 12 July 2002
UK Release Date: 23 August 2002
Synopsis
In present-day London, twelve-year-old Quinn watches as his mother, a construction engineer, inadvertently wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its centuries-long slumber.
Twenty years later, much of the world has been scarred by the beast and its offspring. As a fire chief, Quinn (Christian Bale) is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a small community alive as they eke out a meager existence.
Into their midst comes a hotshot American, Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), who says he has a way to kill the beasts and save mankind - a way Quinn's never seen done.
Directed by Rob Bowman (THE X FILES), REIGN OF FIRE fuses a medieval past with a post-apocalyptic future in this exciting tale of adventure and survival.