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1000 - THE SWORD IN THE STONE

EPISODE 1: THE DRUID THE SWORD AND THE RAVEN

BIG BEAR ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY INC. - as PROD

Family - Development 2025

A teenager, lost in time, inherits a legendary magic sword for defeating the evil forces and preventing the impending Armageddon. Will he fully accomplish his own mission avoiding the feared apocalypse, breaking spells and finding the right way to get home?

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Family, Fantasy, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- CANADA, ITALY, HUNGARY
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Synopsis
- This multi-awarded format, with focus on content with mass global appeal, combines thorough historical research in the form of an action-fantasy film for family.
  
  SYNOPSIS
  The quadriremes of the Roman Emperor Augustus returning from Egypt after Cleopatra's suicide, the incursions and looting of the Saracens pirates, the kidnapping of a noble family from Salerno are just some of the recurring nightmares of Mary, former world swimming champion. Her daughter Jacquelin, in her early teens, is going to meet her friends in the Abbey of San Galgano in Tuscany, Italy, where the genuine sword in the stone is jealously guarded.
  Some premonitions about shocking mysteries anticipate what will soon be the blood bond between the girl and the thousand-year history of that piece of iron stuck in the rock, which throws her backwards in the Middle Ages until the year 1160.
  The customers of the Raven's Inn, a sought-after meeting place on the Amalfi coast, are busy arguing about who rules the medieval world: men or women?
  There Jacqueline meets Galgano, a distant ancestor of hers, and due to a spell she remains trapped, with the burden of sharing their destinies.
  The Inn's owner, noticing the teenager's weird dualism, invites guests to sit around him, on the verge of narrating an incredible tale about a Druid, a sword and a raven.
  A century and a half earlier, the world was slowly overcoming the fearsome Armageddon of Millennium. Believing that the sky would fall on their heads, folks no longer worked, they didn't get married or have children, houses weren't built. Even the countryside was completely abandoned and overgrown.
  Against all expectations, there was no end of the world and people began to make plans again.
  After the kidnapping of his family by Saracen pirates, the elderly nobleman Alferius accepted the perilous task of traveling from Salerno to Germany to obtain help from Holy Emperor Otto.
  There were many characters, unexpected situations and dangers to face, day by day, on the long and difficult road.
  Unfortunately, despite a magic sword received as a gift from a Druid, and the help of a Princess, Alferius never succeeded in completing his mission. He was captured, jailed and sentenced to death.
  Not even Merlin and Morgana, changed by spell into squirrel and frog and later locked in the hilt of that sword, were able to do enough.
  That incredible story in the Raven's Inn enlightens the minds of Jacqueline and Galgano, up to understand what binds them so strongly: a common ancestor, Alferius.
  By means of a magic well, he appoints both to align his magic sword with Michael's sanctuaries, so that good can prevail over evil. This needs strength, courage and royal blood.
  After twenty years, in the deep forest of Merse Valley, the two youths finally have the opportunity to demonstrate the belonging to that noble lineage when the Templar knight Galgano retrieves the lifeless body of a child, overwhelmed by cold rushing water of a river.
  Carrying on his chest the little corpse, Galgano steps a bit, gently laying it on the grass, pulls out his sword and sticks it down like a cross, gathering in prayer with hand gestures of faith.
  It's a miracle. Barely opening eyes, the child wakes up!
  This clearly means that the sword must represent a different cavalry. A peaceful weapon in defence of the good.
  Archangel Michael shows Galgano the right place to leave his powerful sword, albeit against the will of the Angel of Death.
  From inside, Jacqueline gives extra energy to Galgano, tackling the evil forces, struggling and finally succeeding in sticking the sword in the stone.
  An angelic melody leads worldwide, from sanctuary to sanctuary, a magic line of power through the forest, until Satan falls.
  In the same time, noticing the lifeless body of Jacqueline falling into the river, Mary plunges and swiftly swims with great progression, just like an Olympic race. People stand, concerned for the hurdle of river's drift, until she drags Jacq ashore, safe.
  Squirrel and frog magically transform back into Merlin and Morgana, human figures, since the spell is broken.