Dinesh Kamath's column on film 'Jack the Giant Slayer' under the title 'New movie-releases in Navi Mumbai' that was published in Newsband

Jack the Giant Slayer

Jack the Giant Slayer (previously titled Jack the Giant Killer) is an upcoming fantasy—adventure film based on the Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tales. The film is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor with a screenplay written by Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie and Dan Studney. The film tells the story of Jack, a young farmhand who must rescue a princess from a race of giants after inadvertently opening a gateway to their world.

When Jack, a young farmhand, accidentally opens a gateway to the world of Giants an ancient war restarts as the giants, thought only of as legend, try to reclaim the world they lost centuries ago. Jack is forced into a fight to not only save his own life, but that of those in the kingdom and that of the princess.

The film has Nicholas Hoult as Jack, a young farmer who leads the expedition to rescue the princess, Eleanor Tomlinson as Isabelle, the princess who is kidnapped by giants, Stanley Tucci as Lord Roderick, an adviser to the king with designs on usurping power, Ian McShane as King Brahmwell, the princess' father, who is none too thrilled about a union between his daughter and a farmer boy, Bill Nighy and John Kassir as Fallon, the two-headed leader of the giants; Nighy plays the big head and Kassir plays the smaller head, Ewan McGregor as Elmont, the leader of the king’s elite guard, who helps fight giants and Eddie Marsan

The film narrates a very traditional fairytale.