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Outlander is a 2008 science fiction action film written and directed by Howard McCain, starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman. The plot is loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, adapted to a science fiction backstory involving a spaceship crashing in Iron Age Norway. The film grossed US$7 million compared to a budget estimated at $47 million.
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*Beowulf*, the Anglo-Saxon poem often regarded as the first significant work of English literature, serves as a fascinating case study how single text can be adapted into very different film, each taking unique liberties with the source material. For instance, the 1999 film *The Thirteenth Warrior*, starring Antonio Banderas, reimagines the story as a revisionist historical epic. In contrast, the same year saw *Beow…More
