Green KnightThe Green Knight (Welsh: Marchog Gwyrdd, Cornish: Marghek Gwyrdh, Breton: Marc'heg Gwer) is a heroic character of the Matter of Britain, originating in the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the related medieval work The Greene Knight. His true name is revealed to be Bertilak de Hautdesert (spelled in some translations as "Bercilak" or "Bernlak") in Sir Gawain, while The Greene Knight names him "Bredbeddle".
GawainGawain ( ), whose name is spelled in multiple ways, is one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legendary cycle. His prototype appears under the name Gwalchmei in the earliest Welsh sources. He has subsequently appeared in Arthurian tales in multiple languages – Welsh, Latin, French, English, Scottish, Dutch, German, Spanish, and Italian – notably as the protagonist of the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Sir Gawain and the Green KnightSir Gawain and the Green Knight is a Middle English late 14th-century chivalric romance in alliterative verse. The author is unknown; the title was given centuries later. It is one of the best-known Arthurian stories, with its plot combining two types of folk motifs: the beheading game and the exchange of winnings.
Ralph InesonRalph Michael Ineson ( ; born 15 December 1969) is an English actor, narrator and writer. His film roles include Amycus Carrow in the final three Harry Potter films (2009–2011), William in The Witch (2015), the title character in The Green Knight (2021), Dr. Wilhelm Sievers in Nosferatu (2024), and Galactus in The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025).
Dev PatelDev Patel ( ; born 23 April 1990) is a British actor and filmmaker. His accolades include a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. Patel was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024. Patel began his career playing Anwar Kharral in the E4 teen drama Skins (2007).
Alicia VikanderAlicia Amanda Vikander (; Swedish:; born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Born and raised in Gothenburg, Vikander began acting as a child in minor stage productions at the Gothenburg opera house and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm.
Joel EdgertonJoel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is known for his portrayal of Will McGill on the first two seasons of the Australian drama seriesThe Secret Life of Us (2001–2002), and for playing Owen Lars in the Star Wars films Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), a role he reprised in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022). He also voiced Metal Beak from Warner Bros.
David Lowery (director)David Lowery (born December 26, 1980) is an American filmmaker. His film Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013), starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. In 2016, he directed the Disney film Pete's Dragon (2016), a live-action film which he had co-written, loosely based on the same original story as the Disney 1977 musical of the same name.
Sean HarrisSean Harris (born 1 June 1966) is an English actor.
Sarita ChoudhurySarita Catherine Louise Choudhury (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃorita t͡ʃou̯dʱuɾi]; born 18 August 1966) is a British actress who has appeared in film and on television. Choudhury made her screen debut starring in the romantic drama film Mississippi Masala (1991).
Dark fantasyDark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy works that incorporates magical and supernatural elements with the grim, unsettling, and macabre atmosphere of horror fiction. The term is ambiguously used to describe stories that combine horror elements with one or another of the standard formulas of fantasy. DefinitionA strict definition for dark fantasy is difficult to pin down. Gertrude Barrows Bennett has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy".
Adventure filmThe adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different from the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in that the genre required a setting that was both remote in time and space to the film audience and that it contained a positive hero who tries to make right in their world.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.