10 Fun Facts From Dominic Sena’s ‘Season Of The Witch’ (2011)
Jazmine Hiller January 20, 2021ListsComments Off on 10 Fun Facts From Dominic Sena’s ‘Season Of The Witch’ (2011)
Dominic Sena’s adventure fantasy film, Season Of The Witch, was released 10 years ago on January 7, 2021. To celebrate, we have compiled a list of some fun facts you might not know.
Season Of The Witch, directed by Dominic Sena (Gone in 60 Seconds 2000, Kalifornia 1993), follows the story of fourteenth century knights transporting a suspected witch to a monastery where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague. The film stars Nicolas Cage (Con Air 1997) Claire Foy (The Girl in the Spider’s Web 2018), Ron Perlman (Hellboy 2004), and Christopher Lee (Lord Of The Rings franchise).
Ten Fun Facts
1) Nicolas Cage was attracted to the project because he saw it as a tribute to Roger Corman movies from the 1960s, which invariably starred the likes of Sir Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. It was a bonus for him to discover that Lee was to appear in this movie, too.
2) Nicolas Cage learned to ride a horse for Season Of The Witch.
3) Claire Foy researched demonic possessions and witchcraft for her role.
4) Filming took place in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. Most of the principal photography took place in practical locations with several days being committed to filming on green screen. Principal photography was completed by April 2009, but the cast and crew re-gathered a few months later to film additional battle sequences, filmed on green screen to save on travel. The re-shoots were directed by Brett Ratner (Red Dragon 2002).
5)Season Of The Witch was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957).
6) The film was originally set for release in March of 2010, but the studio pushed it back when test screenings reportedly did not impress Lionsgate executives. Re-shoots were held in September 2010 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
7) Wormwood, the name of the forest where blood is shed, is also the name of a destructive entity in the Bible. This entity, a star whose name also translates as Bitterness, appears to cause widespread illness. According to Revelation 8:10-11, “The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water–the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”
8) Though Claire Foy’s character is revealed to be named “Anna” at the end of the movie, she is listed simply as “The Girl” in the credits.
9) Bounced from MGM to Columbia and then to Relativity on its eleven-year journey to the screen.
10) Theatrical movie debut of Claire Foy.
What do you think of our top ten bits of Season Of The Witch trivia? Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments!
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