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[13] [21] [22] Phil Shelburne became the Tournament of Kings director. He was a former Excalibur puppeteer, a King Arthur's Tournament cast member, and a director of several community shows. Peter Jackson originally intended to be the director but advised Patrick to choose Shelburne as director if Peter could not do it.
The original show, King Arthur's Tournament, [68] included 45 actors and 15 horses upon its opening. [37] The show closed in January 1999, after approximately 5,600 performances. It was replaced a month later by a revamped version known as Tournament of Kings. [63] [65] More than $2 million was spent to update the show and remodel the arena. [66]
Terry appeared in about 20 films, most notably as John in The Lion in Winter (1968) with Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole and Anthony Hopkins; [7] King Arthur in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981); [8] and the title character in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986). [7]
A motif from Wagner's Götterdämmerung, which was used prominently in Excalibur as the theme for the sword. Excalibur is a 1981 epic medieval fantasy film directed, cowritten and produced by John Boorman, that retells the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, based loosely on the 15th-century Arthurian romance Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory.
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The Kings went 13 of 21 from the field and 8 of 12 from 3-point range over the first nine minutes to jump out to a 34-22 lead, showing tremendous energy for a team at the end of an 11-day road trip.
"Excalibur's action-packed Tournament of Kings is one of a kind". Las Vegas Sun. Archived from the original on 2023-10-16. The article notes: "And then there’s the food: Excalibur has been the No. 1 purchaser of Cornish game hens in the United States for years thanks to the traditional Tournament of Kings feast.
Excalibur is the mythical sword of King Arthur that may possess magical powers or be associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. Its first reliably datable appearance is found in Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Regum Britanniae .