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The King's Daughter

  • 20222022
  • PGPG
  • 1h 38m
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The King's Daughter (2022)
King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
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King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.King Louis XIV's quest for immortality leads him to capture and steal a mermaid's life force, a move that is further complicated by his illegitimate daughter's discovery of the creature.
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    • Sean McNamara
    • Barry Berman(screenplay by)
    • James Schamus(screenplay by)
    • Vonda N. McIntyre(based on the novel 'The Moon and the Sun' by)
  • Stars
    • Pierce Brosnan
    • Kaya Scodelario
    • William Hurt
    • Sean McNamara
    • Barry Berman(screenplay by)
    • James Schamus(screenplay by)
    • Vonda N. McIntyre(based on the novel 'The Moon and the Sun' by)
  • Stars
    • Pierce Brosnan
    • Kaya Scodelario
    • William Hurt
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    • 40Critic reviews
    • 31Metascore
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    Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan
    • King Louis XIV
    Kaya Scodelario
    Kaya Scodelario
    • Marie-Josephe
    William Hurt
    William Hurt
    • Pere La Chaise
    Benjamin Walker
    Benjamin Walker
    • Captain Yves
    Pablo Schreiber
    Pablo Schreiber
    • Dr. Labarthe
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    • Lintillac
    Rachel Griffiths
    Rachel Griffiths
    • Head Abbess
    Crystal Clarke
    Crystal Clarke
    • Magali
    Paul Ireland
    Paul Ireland
    • Benoit
    Bingbing Fan
    Bingbing Fan
    • The Mermaid
    Terry Norris
    Terry Norris
    • Great Chamberlain
    Arthur Angel
    Arthur Angel
    • Lead Musketeer
    Anja Fougea
    • Pretty Little Thing
    Kaya Blocksage
    • Duchesse De Fontagnes
    Kasia Kaczmarek
    Kasia Kaczmarek
    • Sister Constance
    Jessica Clarke
    Jessica Clarke
    • Madame Devereaux
    Mark Antoine
    Mark Antoine
    • Aide
    • (as Mark Antoine Damidot)
    Tiffany Hofstetter
    Tiffany Hofstetter
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      • Sean McNamara
      • Barry Berman(screenplay by)
      • James Schamus(screenplay by)
      • Vonda N. McIntyre(based on the novel 'The Moon and the Sun' by)
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    • Trivia
      Filmed in 2014, it remained unreleased until 2022.
    • Goofs
      Haircuts and clothes are from 1770-2020. One dress even has a zipper! No clothing was remotely authentic or true to the pictured time frame.
    • Soundtracks
      Vapour
      Performed by Vancouver Sleep Clinic

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    4/10
    8 years sitting on a shelf gives us an absolute mess.
    Set in France during the rule of King Louis XIV (Pierce Brosnan), The King, having grown fearful of his own mortality enlists a ship of fisherman lead by captain Yves De La Croix (Benjamin Walker) to find a mermaid (Fan Bingbing) so a ceremony can be performed during an eclipse where The King will consumer her life force and gain immortality. Meanwhile at a convent, free spirited orphan, Mari-Josephe (Kaya Scodelario), has been summoned to Versailles by the king's Father Confessor, Pere La Chaise (William Hurt), at the king's request to be the court composer unaware she's the king's daughter. As Marie Joseph adjusts to the strange and unfamiliar world of Versailles, she finds herself called by the mermaid and befriends her.

    The King's Daughter is a very loose adaptation of the 1997 novel The Moon and the Sun, written by Vonda N. McIntyre, better known for her contributions to Star Wars and Star Trek in novel form with aspects such as the given names of Sulu and Uhura rendered canon. The movie had a long development cycle beginning in 1999 with The Jim Henson Company and eventually moving to Walt Disney Pictures where it lingered in development hell. The project was revived I 2013 when Sean McNamara joined the project as director and filming finally beginning in 2014. While initially set for an August 2014 release by Paramount Pictures, three weeks prior to the release Paramount pulled the film from the release schedule without explanation with only vague stories of "additional visual effects work" released through industry trades. The film sat on a shelf for 8 years in limbo with McNamara having released six movies in the interim since filming it. After being retitled The King's Daughter, the movie was acquired by smaller distributor Gravitas Ventures who re-edited the film with some opening and closing narration by Julie Andrews. When the movie was released in the January dumping ground of 2022, reviews were not kind and the film only gathered about $1.8 million against its $40 million budget. The King's Daughter has all the telltale signs of a troubled production that's been attempted to be salvaged by being reversed engineered into a Disney-esque fairy tale, but whatever vision originally intended has been clouded by years of post-production hell and misguided salvage.

    From the beginning where our film opens with a CGI rendered book opening as read by Julie Andrews as if we're being told a fairy tale, it becomes painfully clear that this narration and this book was not the original intent. After a "blink and you'll miss it" text dump expositing about Louis the XIV and his quest to find the mermaid, Miss Andrews has the thankless job of repeating the same information over again as we go through a poorly rendered CGI book with pictures that are just stills from the movie run through a filter to make them resemble painting (honestly it looks like it's not that far above most gimmick filters on your average smartphone). The opening act is just a mess with the story jumping between The Convent, Versaille, and the expedition to find the mermaid lead by Yves De La Croix and it's both very choppy and rapidly paced so the audience is being suffocated with a lot of exposition about the mermaid, the state of France's and King Louis's power and standing, or various other aspects of the plot that are just rushed through and not given the buildup they should be given especially in a story where you trying to merge real life people with fantasy elements.

    The movie fares maybe the tiniest bit better in the acting department, but even then I'm not sure I'd classify any performance as "good". William Hurt gives regrettably his final on screen performance before his death in 2022 (albeit filmed in 2014) and for what it's worth Hurt does do a decent job of conveying Pere La Chaise as a man torn between his devotion to God and loyalty to his king with Hurt's more subdued delivery fitting well with a character who's supposed to be a man of faith. Pierce Brosnan is entertaining as King Louis the XIV, even if he does flirt with going over the top, and the scenes between Brosnan and Hurt do seem like they're trying to bring something to this movie. Kaya Scodelario plays our main protagonist as Marie-Josephe and while Scodelario has had a successful career since this movie with her part in the Maze Runner trilogy, Crawl, and the Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Scodelario is given nothing to work with as she is portrayed in a very clunky fashion that feels like a crude facsimile of a Disney princess archetype. Benjamin Walker also plays Yves as the love interest and the chemistry between the two of them just doesn't come through on camera. Fan Bingbing gets massively shorts rifted here as the mermaid really doesn't have a character down to the fact she can't talk and serves as a glorified macguffin who often doesn't share the screen with live action actors with the mermaid effects falling into the uncanny valley. The movie tries to file down some of its rougher edges from whatever the earlier version of this film was to try and make it similar to one of those Disney live-action remakes, but when you have scenes of King Louis confessing his sexual indiscretions or dry sequences discussing the nature God versus science (with Science represented with a cartoonishly evil strawman), it doesn't seem like the type of movie that's made for a family audience because despite it's attempts to frame this story as a fairy tale, it just isn't and was clearly never intended to be presented this way.

    The King's Daughter is just a mess. While there's clear indication the actors are trying, their work is faced with a Sisyphean challenge against confused editing and a story lacking in clarity as to how and why certain things came into being. The movie just doesn't work on any level, but especially not as the family centered fairy tale it's been reversed engineered into.
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      • January 21, 2022 (United States)
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      • Docklands Studios, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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