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Success | Medieval
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Budget 40,000,000 USD
Due to adverse reaction at preview screenings, Warner Bros instructed the director, Bill Forsyth, to trim the film by 40 minutes as well as adding narration and a happy ending. Forsyth subsequently disowned the film as a result.
The language spoken by the woman Hector encounters and falls in love with in the Middle Ages is Friulian, a variety of Ladin which is spoken in northeastern Italy.
Feature film debut of Ewan McGregor.
The language spoken by the Barbarian raiders in the first story is Irish Gaelic.
Due to negative test screenings the film was almost released direct to video. However after Robin Williams had a massive box office success with Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) in late 1993 the studio hoped to capitalize on that success and released the film theatrically five and a half months later in May of 1994 where it flopped badly with critics and audiences.
"[first lines] The Storyteller: This is the story of a story. Once upon a time there was this story, and the story said to itself, how should I begin? Hector: Try the usual way. The Storyteller: What, in the dark with a man and a woman, in a story that is still to tell itself? Hector: Well, you've got to start somewhere. Say, long long ago... Or, far far away... Or, another time in a different distant country... Or just, once... The Storyteller: That's good. "Far away", so you know the place is close to your own heart. "Once" is nice, so we know that it always happens. Hmm, Once there was this hero... Hector: [wryly] Some hero. The Storyteller: Some man then. Any man. Say, a man, a woman, and some children. Don't forget the children."
"Hector: [holding a dish] If the world is round, you could still fall off the edge. Boy: No, it's not round like that, it's round like this. [holds up a ball]"
