The Last Witch Hunter

The Last Witch Hunter

 

The Last Witch Hunter
Teaser poster
Directed by	Breck Eisner
Produced by	Adam Goldworm Tom Rosenberg Gary Lucchesi Eric Reid
Written by	Cory Goodman D.W. Harper Melisa Wallack[1]
Starring	Vin Diesel Rose Leslie Elijah Wood Michael Caine
Music by	Steve Jablonsky[2]
Production company	Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films Lionsgate-Summit Lakeshore Entertainment Mark Canton Productions One Race Entertainment[3]
Distributed by	Lionsgate Entertainment
Release dates	October 23, 2015
Country	United States
Language	English

The Last Witch Hunter is an upcoming supernatural action film, which will be directed by Breck Eisner. The film will star Vin Diesel as an immortal witch-hunter who must stop a plague from ravaging New York City.^[4] The film is scheduled to be released on October 23, 2015.

Contents

• 1 Synopsis
• 2 Cast
• 3 Production
  • 3.1 Filming
• 4 Release
• 5 Sequel
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Synopsis

An immortal witch-hunter is tasked with the job of coming between the covens of New York City and their goal to destroy humanity by way of a horrific plague.
In order to accomplish this, he must partner up with a beautiful female witch, something that he thought he would never do.

Cast

• Vin Diesel as Kaulder
• Rose Leslie as Chloe
• Elijah Wood as the 37th Dolan
• Michael Caine as Father Dolan
• Rena Owen as Glaeser
• Julie Engelbrecht as Witch Queen
• Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Belial
• Isaach De Bankolé as Schlesinger
• Lotte Verbeek as Helena
• Kurt Angle^[5]

Production

Plans to film The Last Witch Hunter were announced in 2012 and initially Timur Bekmambetov was to direct the film based on a script written by Cory Goodman.^[6] Bekmambetov was later replaced by Breck Eisner and Goodman's script was re-written by D.W. Harper before Melisa Wallack was brought on work on the film's script.^[7][8] Vin Diesel was announced to be performing in the film, which will be produced through Lionsgate-Summit.^[7] The production filed for a film tax credit in Pennsylvania and was allocated a tax credit of $14 million.^[9][10] In February 2014, Vin Diesel posted a photo of the film's concept artwork to his Facebook page and Lionsgate CEO Jon Feitheimer commented that if successful, The Last Witch Hunter could become a film franchise.^[11] In July 2014, it was announced that Rose Leslie would be joining the cast as Vin Diesel's co-star,^[12] and in August, Elijah Wood, Michael Caine, and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson were also announced as attached to the film.^[13][14][15] Julie Engelbrecht and Lotte Verbeek will also star.^[16][17] In February 2015, Steve Jablonsky was hired to compose the film's score.