The giant strides into Mead Hall and bellows, “I am Beowulf, and I’m here to kill your monster.” That’s how Hollywood turns a Danish warrior from an eighth-century Old English epic into a movie hero.

The new film version of Beowulf is upon us, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Angelina Jolie, and Crispin Glover, with Ray Winstone as Beowulf. Zemeckis, whose ...

Gerard Butler's turn as Stoic the Vast in the live-action adaptation of How To Train Your Dragonproves once again that few actors can channel gruff nobility quite like he can. With his commanding ...

Jeff Bridges and Dave Bautista have been cast in Grendel, a new live-action Beowulf adaptation that comes from The Jim Henson Company. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Bridges will play the titular monster ...

The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who’s celebrated for his victorious bouts with ...

There’s something monstrous in the heart of America — literally. In Grendel, Kentucky, an upcoming series from upstart publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans, the Beowulf story gets updated and ...

This week’s Arlington Pets of the Week are Beowulf and Grendel, two bulldogs who enjoy playing together. Here is what their owner, Matthew, had to say about them: Beowulf and his brother from a ...

There's a vitally important word in the epic tale of Beowulf and, according to Maria Dahvana Headley, it's been translated incorrectly for a very long time. The word is aglæca/æglæca — no one's ...

Anyone with even a passing interest in poetry should recognise that the foundation of this movie is the epic poem Beowulf and not the comic book. Focusing on the human aspect of the story instead of ...

In "Beowulf & Grendel," the first epic poem in the English language receives a rendition that's about half as good and half as harsh as it needed to be. Icelandic-shot version of the legendary revenge ...