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Directed by | Maximilian Elfeldt |
Written by | Jeremy M. Inman |
Produced by | David Michael Latt |
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Cinematography | Josh Maas |
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Music by | Christopher Cano |
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Distributed by | The Asylum |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Avengers Grimm: Time Wars is a 2018 American superhero mockbuster film written, co-edited, and directed by Jeremy M. Inman. The film, produced by The Asylum, stars Erik Feltes, Lauren Parkinson, and Marah Fairclough.
The film is a mockbuster of the Marvel Studios superhero film Avengers: Infinity War and the ABC TV series Once Upon a Time . It is a sequel to 2015's Avengers Grimm . [1]
Years have passed since the first film, with the shattering of the magic mirror portal spreading shards of the mirror across the world. To combat threats from the fairytale realm, an organization called Looking Glass was founded; led by Alice (whose sanity is maintained by medicine Hatter makes for her), the princesses and Red work to locate the fragments to rebuild the portal to go home. However, the power-crazed ruler of Atlantis, Magda the Mad, is threatening the world in her hunt for Prince Charming (who survived Rumplestiltskin's attempt on his life) to force him to marry her so she can get his ring, which will literally allow her to rule all the land. A different Rumplestiltskin allies with Magda in exchange for Atlantis. Snow White is revived to combat the threat.
Avengers Grimm: Time Wars was released direct-to-DVD on May 1, 2018, in the United States.
"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales, numbered as Tale 53. The original German title was Sneewittchen; the modern spelling is Schneewittchen. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854, which can be found in the 1857 version of Grimms' Fairy Tales.
The Hatter is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He is very often referred to as the Mad Hatter, though this term was never used by Carroll. The phrase "mad as a hatter" pre-dates Carroll's works. The Hatter and the March Hare are referred to as "both mad" by the Cheshire Cat, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the sixth chapter titled "Pig and Pepper".
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