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Reign of Fire

Year:

2002

Duration:

101 min

Genres:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

IMDB rate:

6.2

Director:

Rob Bowman

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2002-07-12

Filming Locations: Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

Earnings

Budget: $60,000,000

Opening Weekend: $15,632,281 (USA) (14 July 2002)

Gross: $43,061,982 (USA) (27 October 2002)

Cast

Actor

Character

Alice Krige

Christian Bale

Quinn Abercromby

Matthew McConaughey

Denton Van Zan

Izabella Scorupco

Alex Jensen

Gerard Butler

Creedy

Scott Moutter

Jared Wilke

David Kennedy

Eddie Stax

Alexander Siddig

Ajay

Ned Dennehy

Barlow

Rory Keenan

Devon

Terence Maynard

Gideon

Doug Cockle

Goosh

Randall Carlton

Burke (Tito)

Chris Kelly

Mead

Ben Thornton

Young Quinn

Malcolm Douglas

Stuart

Dessie Gallagher

Jess

Martin Linnane

Mole #1

Denis Conway

Mole #2

Duncan Keegan

Michael

Laura Pyper

Lin

Berts Folan

Construction Worker #1 (as Bernard Berts Folan)

Brian McGuinness

Construction Worker #2

Barry Barnes

Construction Worker #3

David Herlihy

Oliver

Gerry O'Brien

Jerry

Patrick Foy

Paddy (as Paddy Foy)

Anne Maria McAuley

Rose

Maree Duffy

Rachel

Alex Meacock

Alvarez

David Garrick

Jefferson

Andy Godbold

Piscatella

Jack Gleeson

Kid (uncredited)

Sebastian Siegel

Jefferson (uncredited)

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Trivia

Matthew's character "Denton" tells his men to line up 20 yards South by Southwest; being a Texan he is referencing Austin's annual music festival, South by Southwest (SXSW).

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The preview claims that the film is set in 2084. Yet the actual movie itself gives the date as sometime in the 2020s.

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It was filmed in Ireland, in the Wicklow Mountains. They were only allowed to film there under the condition that they clean up entirely after themselves, without damaging the landscape.

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Goofs

In the opening scenes, the small boy appears to be walking in London around the new Underground building site, but clearly in the background two red and white chimneys are visible. These chimneys are located in Ringsend, Dublin (where this scene was filmed), and not London.

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Van Zan tells Quinn the explosive crossbow bolts are magnesium-tipped C4. Assuming the magnesium is being lit from impact or from the dragon's breath, the C4 would not detonate; C4 detonates only with combined heat and pressure usually only obtained from detonating a blasting cap embedded in the C4. Unless the magnesium tip was purposed as the ignition source of a blasting cap that wasn't mentioned in the arrow head the C4 would not have detonated.

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It is impossible to "stay tight to the cliffs" all the way from Northumbria and London: East Anglia and the Thames basin are flat.

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Quotes

Construction Worker #1: Quinn! What are you doing down in the arsehole of the world?

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Quinn Abercromby: That's a big tank...

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Denton Van Zan: There's nothing magical about it. They're made of flesh and blood. You take out their heart you bring down the beast.

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Faq

Van Zan mentions that he was able to kill a dragon during "magic hour" -- what was he talking about?

Van Zan was talking about a specific time of day near sunset called "magic hour" or "golden hour", when the light from the sun is softer. Van Zan had deduced that the dragon he killed (and the rest of its species) have impaired vision at that time of day. We see evidence during the final battle with the male dragon in London: while it hunts Quinn, Van Zan & Alex, we see things from it's perspective, which is distorted & somewhat blurred, making it harder for the dragon to see them.

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