Jason and the Argonauts (miniseries)
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Jason and the Argonauts | |
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Written by | Matthew Faulk |
Directed by | Nick Willing |
Starring | |
Music by | Hallmark Entertainment Panfilm |
Budget | $30,000,000[1] |
Original release | |
Release | May 7, 2000 |
Jason and the Argonauts, (also known as Jason and the Golden Fleece) is a 2000 American two-part television
.Plot
The film opens as soldiers invade the city of Iolcus. King Aeson's brother Pelias is leading the charge. Inside the temple he goes to embrace his brother but produces a dagger and kills him during the embrace. This is witnessed by his wife Polymele and his son Jason. He intends to do the same to Jason but one of the guards rescues him and takes him out of the palace through a secret tunnel.
It is then revealed that this is a memory, experienced as a nightmare by an older Jason, who awakes. He does not remember who he is, so the centaur Chiron, who has raised Jason, reveals him that he is the true heir of
He recruits a crew from the simple folk of Iolcus, including shepherds and farmers. He is joined by Hercules, Orpheus, Atalanta and the brothers Castor and Pollux. Acastus stows away on the ship, the Argo. The Argonauts run aground on a strange island in the middle of the ocean that is actually the sea god Poseidon. In the ensuing storm, they lose the map. The crew make their way to the Isle of Lemnos, an island of warrior women, to recover from the experience and repair the ship. The men pleasure themselves with the women while their ship is repaired (except Orpheus and Atalanta) and Jason sleeps with the queen Hypsipyle. Atalanta discovers that the women have killed all the men on the island and are planning to sacrifice the crew. She warns Jason, and the Argonauts flee the island.
The crew become rebellious and Jason has
The Argo docks at Colchis and Jason goes ashore with Aspyrtes, Castor and Pollux. Hera asks
The other Argonauts debate whether to leave or not. Hercules, Orpheus and
Acastus has been wounded and Medea uses magic to heal him. Atalanta confesses she loves Jason but he says he will marry Medea. She has a vision of her father's death and the two kiss. Zeus attempts to seduce Medea but she says she loves Jason, even when he pulls out Eros's arrow. The ship arrives back in Iolcus and Jason learns his mother killed herself, believing him and Acastus to be dead. They rest in the bay and Acastus steals the Fleece and goes into town. Pelias kills him and takes the Fleece. Medea then goes and says he will marry her. Jason and the others sneak into the palace through the secret tunnel. Argos is killed by one of the guards. Pelias tries to kill Jason but is stabbed by his own knife.
To cremate the dead
of Iolcus.Cast
- Jason London as Jason
- Frank Langella as King Aeëtes
- Natasha Henstridge as Hypsipyle
- Derek Jacobi as Phineus
- Olivia Williams as Hera
- Angus Macfadyen as Zeus
- Dennis Hopper as Pelias
- Jolene Blalock as Medea
- James Callis as Aspyrtes
- Brian Thompson as Hercules
- Adrian Lester as Orpheus
- Ciarán Hinds as King Aeson
- Diana Kent as Polymele
- David Calder as Argos
- Mark Lewis Jones as Mopsus
- Hugh Quarshie as Chiron (the Centaur)
- Olga Sosnovska as Atalanta
- Kieran O'Brien as Actor
- Tom Harper as Acastus
- Omid Djalili as Castor
- John Sharian as Pollux
- Zetes, son of Idas
- Mark Folan Deasy as Iphicles
- Elliot Levey as Canthus
- Xavier Anderson as Phanos
- Charles Cartmell as Laertes, father of Odysseus
- Dodger Phillips as Tiphys, helmsman
- Peter Gevisser as Butes
- Norman Roberts as Echion
- Greg Hicks as Priest
- Adam Cooper as Eros
- Mickey Churchill (as Micky Churchill) as Boy Jason
- Idas, the mapmaker
- Andrew Tansey as Aeëtes' 1st General
- Richard Bonehill as Aeëtes' 2nd General
- Freda Dowie as Hera as Old Peasant Woman
- Zeta Graff as Hypsipyle's 1st General
- Zoë Eeles (as Zoe Eeles) as Actor's Lemnite Girl
- Alit Kreiz as High Priestess
- Andrew Scarborough as Aeson's Soldier
- Alan Stocks as Pelias' Bodyguard
- Suzanne Harbison as Mopsus' Lemnite Girl
- Freya Archard (uncredited) as Zetes' Lemnite Girl
- Joseph Gatt (uncredited) as Atlas
- Mike Savva (uncredited) as Pelias' Bodyguard
Soundtrack
In 2010, Perseverance Records released the soundtrack album with music by Simon Boswell.
See also
- List of historical drama films
- List of films featuring Hercules
- Greek mythology in popular culture
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)
References
- ^ "SIMON BOSWELL: JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)". towerrecords.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
External links
- Jason and the Argonauts at IMDb