Dragon Hunters (film)

Dragon Hunters French Chasseurs de dragons is a 2008 FrenchGermanLuxembourgish 3D computeranimated adventure action fantasy family film and fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters, written by Frdric EngelLenoir, directed by creator Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel and produced by Philippe Delarue and Tilo Seiffert. It features the voices of Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Marie Drion in the French version and Forest Whitaker, Rob Paulsen and Mary Mouser in the English version. The film was produced by Futurikon, and coproduced by LuxAnimation, Mac Guff Ligne and Trixter. It shares the same creative universe as the Dragon Hunters TV series. It was released on March 26, 2008 in France and on March 20, 2008 in Russia and New Zealand. It was also distributed by Icon Productions and Bac Films. The music for the film was composed by Klaus Badelt. The film received a Cristal Award nomination for Best Feature and it earned 12,235,843 on a 12,000,000 budget. Dragon Hunters was released on DVD on November 5, 2008 in France by Warner Home Video.

OnOctober 2007, it was announced that Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel were set to direct Dragon Hunters based on the TV series of the same name by Arthur Qwak. Frdric EngelLenoir and Qwak wrote the script for the film. Philippe Delarue and Tilo Seiffert produced the film with the budget of 12,000,000 for release in 2008. OnOctober, it was announced that Rob Paulsen, Forest Whitaker, Mary Mouser, Nick Jameson, Jess Harnell and Dave Wittenberg joined the film. OnDecember 2007, it was announced that Klaus Badelt would compose the music for the film. Development and storyboarding of the film was completed in Paris, France. Production then moved to Berlin, Germany and Luxembourg City, Luxembourg for the final phases of animation, lighting, color and production in order to maximize tax credits offered to foreign film projects in Germany and Luxembourg. OnDecember, Futurikon, Bac Films, Icon Productions and Universum Film UFA acquired distribution rights to the film. Dragon Hunters was filmed at France, Germany and Luxembourg in January 2008. Klaus Badelt scored the music for the film and on its soundtrack. The soundtrack also contains Lotus performed by Jalan Jalan and The Dragon Hunter performed by The Cure.An English dubbed version starring the voices of Forest Whitaker, Rob Paulsen and Mary Mouser was released in the United States onApril 2008. ........

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