Movie
1987
Lionheart, also known as Lionheart: The Children's Crusade, is a 1987 adventure film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and produced by Talia Shire and Stanley O'Toole. Shire's brother, Francis Ford Coppola, initially planned to direct the film but instead opted to be executive producer along with Shire's husband, Jack Schwartzman. The screenplay was written by Menno Meyjes and Richard Outten from a story by Meyjes.…
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Franklin J. Schaffner was a very versatile director, but the films that earned him a place in film history books were “larger-than-life” epics like *Planet of the Apes*, *Patton* and *Papillon*. His penultimate film, 1987 historic adventure *Lionheart*, was supposed to be in the same league with those great hits, but its fate turned out to be quite different. Due to complicated set of business and other circumstance…More
