Outlander (2008)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |.
Outlander is a independent science fiction-action film starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman, and written and directed by Howard McCain. The plot is loosely based on the 9th-century epic poem Beowulf, adapted to a science-fiction backstory involving a spaceship crashing in Iron Age Norway. The film was a box-office failure, grossing US$7 million compared to a budget estimated at $47 million, though it has since become a minor cult classic.
A spacecraft crashes in a lake in Vendel-era Scandinavia (550-790). The only surviving occupant – a human – retrieves a distress beacon and a computer which explains that he is on Earth, a “seed” colony that his people have abandoned. The computer downloads the local Norse language and culture directly into his brain. The spaceman soon finds a freshly destroyed village, where he is captured by Wulfric, a warrior from another village.
Wulfric takes him to the fortified village of King Hrothgar, father of Freya, who he hopes will marry future king Wulfric. Hrothgar is concerned that Gunnar, chieftain of the destroyed village, will assume it was Wulfric’s doing, as Wulfric’s father (Hrothgar’s predecessor) had been killed by Gunnar. Wulfric interrogates the “outlander”, who identifies himself as Kainan, claiming he is from the north, and states that he is hunting a dragon.
Director: Howard McCain
Writers: Dirk Blackman, Howard McCain
Stars: Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman, Jack Huston, John Hurt, Cliff Saunders, Aidan Devine
►Cast:
| Jim Caviezel | … | Kainan |
| Sophia Myles | … | Freya |
| Jack Huston | … | Wulfric |
| John Hurt | … | Hrothgar |
| Cliff Saunders | … | Boromir |
| Patrick Stevenson | … | Unferth |
| Aidan Devine | … | Einar |
| Ron Perlman | … | Gunnar |
| Bailey Maughan | … | Erick |
| John Nelles | … | Donal (as John E. Nelles) |
| James Preston Rogers | … | Bjorn (as James Rogers) |
| Scott Owen | … | Aethril |
| Petra Prazak | … | Mara |
| Owen Pattison | … | Galen, son of Kainen |
| Matt Cooke | … | Captain |
| Katie Bergin | … | Sonja |
| Todd Godin | … | Lars |
| Mauralea Austin | … | Jona |
| Matthew Amyotte | … | Arn |
| John Beale | … | Edmund |
| Ted Ludzik | … | Olaf |
| James Binkley | … | Leader |
| Liam McNamara | … | Finn |
| Bryan Renfro | … | Grey-haired Warrior (as Brian Renfro) |
| Jon K. Loverin | … | Sheepherder (as Jon Loverin) |
| Andrew Albert | … | Drunken Reveler #1 |
| Brian Heighton | … | Trader |
| Danny Lima | … | Slave |
| Glenn Wadman | … | Waling Man (as Glen Wadman) |
| Simon Northwood | … | Warrior #1 |
| Todd Schroeder | … | Warrior #2 (as Todd William Schroeder) |
| Martha Irving | … | Weeping Woman |
| Bart Lovett | … | Stabbed Sentry (as Bartlett C. Lovett) |
| Tess McCain | … | Viking Girl |
| Brent MacRae | … | Viking Warrior |
| Drakaina | … | Kitchen wench |
| Michael Ray Fox | … | Alien Warrior |
| J. William Grantham | … | Drunken Reveler |
| Allyson Haas | … | Villager |
| Craig Harris | … | Viking Warrior |
| Ricardo Hoyos | … | Jon |
| Amy Kerr | … | Bored Kitchen Wench |
| Mark A. Owen | … | Raider |
| Todd Sandomirsky | … | Shishkebob |
| Colette Stevenson | … | (voice) |
| Steven Wendland | … | Viking Warrior |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia