Legend

Theatrical Release Date: 1986 04 18 (USA)

UPC: 025192072918

Studio: Universal Studios

Summary: This lavishly staged and costumed fantasy is about young Jack (Tom Cruise) and his lady love Princess Lili (Mia Sara), and how Jack battles Darkness (Tim Curry) to save both the Princess and the world. When the peasant Jack takes Princess Lili to see the unicorns, the strongest animals around, he does not know that Darkness, with his cloven hooves, yellow eyes, and red skin plans on using Lili as bait to weaken the unicorns which he does -- and plunge the world into an ice age. Soon after that disaster, Darkness captures Lili and, Jack has to rally his elves and elvettes to rescue her and subdue Darkness at the same time. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Category: Fantasy

Awards: Best Makeup – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Makeup – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Feature commentary with director Ridley Scott (Director's Cut)
Isolated music score by Tangerine Dream (theatrical)
Creating a Myth: The making of Legend
Lost scenes including alternate opening
Bryan Ferry "Is Your Love Enough" music video
Photo gallery

Legend

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 05/31/2011

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DHMA, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 114 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Spanish,French

Jeremy Wheeler

Ridley Scott's dark fairy tale Legend is a gorgeous exercise in fantastical storytelling. With the help of FX master Rob Bottin (Total Recall, The Thing), Scott created an unforgettable palette of imagery that will no doubt live on with audiences for years to come. While the story he brought to life admittedly isn't the meatiest - and borderlines on all-too-silly at many points - Legend continues to resonate because it truly is one-of-a-kind classic good vs. evil tale popping with lush eye candy from beginning to end. As far as the cast goes, it's Tim Curry's show all the way as the horned and hoofed Darkness. Aided by Bottin's astounding makeup design, Curry becomes the ultimate vision of evil as he chews up each scene with equal parts nasty glee and venomous seduction. One stumble in the acting department goes to Tom Cruise, whose scrawny frame and puny line deliveries make it tough for audiences to swallow him as the hero of the piece. In contrast, pre-Ferris Bueller Mia Sara radiates enough warmth and beauty as Lili that it's easy to understand Curry's urges toward her. Beyond the leads, the rest of the film is littered with other great character actors, including Billy Barty of Time Bandits fame and Joe Dante favorite Robert Picardo, delivering the brief, but deliciously nasty bog witch, Meg Mucklebones. With gorgeous lighting, set design, and costumes filling each frame, Legend is a sight to behold -- a true fairy tale come to life. While its sometimes uneven tone may continue to polarize the critical elite, even its detractors would be hard-pressed to come up with another film that achieves as much as this visually-arresting film does.

Though technically brilliant, the production was plagued with such infamous setbacks as the fire that severely destroyed a massive forest set beyond repair and of course, the major cuts due to the various test screenings it had to undergo. Not only did Scott cut the film immensely after one of them, but also the original score by Jerry Goldsmith was completely dropped by the studio to make way for a more "popular" score by hot band Tangerine Dream. Thankfully, audiences can now experience the original cut and Goldsmith's score on numerous home releases. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Tangerine Dream  Composer (Music Score) 
Christopher Franke  Composer (Music Score) 
Jerry Goldsmith  Composer (Music Score) 
Peter Guber  Producer 
William Hjortsberg  Screenwriter 
Arnon Milchan  Producer 
Jon Peters  Producer 
Ridley Scott  Director 
Eric Allaman  Composer (Music Score) 
Tom Cruise  Actor 
Mia Sara  Actor 
Tim Curry  Actor 
David Bennent  Actor 
Alice Playten  Actor 
Billy Barty  Actor 
Cork Hubbert  Actor 
Peter O'Farrell  Actor 
Kiran Shah  Actor 
Annabelle Lanyon  Actor 
Robert Picardo  Actor 
Tina Martin  Actor 
Michael Crane  Actor 
Michael Edmonds  Actor 
Ian Longmuir  Actor 
Liz Gilbert  Actor 
Eddie Powell  Actor 
Arnon Milchan  Actor 

Country: UK,USA