Immortals (2011) on Netflix
King Hyperion scours Greece for the Epirus Bow, a weapon forged in the heavens that could free the imprisoned Titans. The peasant hoplite Theseus is chosen by the gods to stop him.
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Plot summary
The Olympians imprisoned the rebel Titans beneath Mount Tartarus, and the Epirus Bow was lost. In 1228 BC the genocidal king Hyperion scours Greece for that bow, meaning to set the Titans free, and he seizes the oracle Phaedra so her visions will point him to it. Theseus, a hoplite drilled by the Old Man, is told the gods have chosen him. He and Aethra, his mother, are outcasts, and he is a bastard child. Hyperion's soldiers descend on their village, and Theseus, after cutting down many of them, is taken captive. Athena and the other Olympians pity the humans suffering at Hyperion's hands, but Zeus forbids them to interfere in mortal affairs.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Immortals (2011)
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- Director Tarsem Singh built the film's look around Renaissance painting, describing his pitch for the visual style as "Caravaggio meets Fight Club," mixing period composition with a deliberately contemporary, electrified feel.
- Immortals opened at number one with $32.2 million against new releases J. Edgar and Jack and Jill, making it the biggest opening weekend to date for its distributor, Relativity Media.
- Before settling on Immortals, the film went through two other working titles, Dawn of War and War of the Gods, while it was being developed from the Greek myths of Theseus, the Minotaur and the Titanomachy.
- The film had a production budget of $80 million, or $75 million after tax rebates, rising in other accounts to $120 million, and cost "at least" $35 million more to market.
