Jeff Bridges is playing Beowulf villain Grendel in a live-action movie with creature work from The Jim Henson Company, and it all sounds sick | Gaming

It’s not often that we learn plenty about a major upcoming big-screen project before it’s even begun shooting, but that’s the case with Grendel, a live-action retelling of the Old English epic Beowulf, adapted from John Gardner’s 1971 novel of the same name by Robert D. Krzykowski (director of the wonderfully-named The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot).

The Hollywood Reporter shared an interview with the writer-director, and it contains a number of highlights, including talk about a cast which includes “Jeff Bridges as the titular monster, Bryan Cranston as King Hrothgar, Dave Bautista as the warrior Beowulf, and T Bone Burnett as the blind, harp-playing Shaper.”

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