Mythica (film series)

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Mythica: A Quest for Heroes
Mythica, A Quest for Heroes official poster.jpeg
Directed byAnne K. Black
Written byAnne K. Black, Jason Faller, and Kynan Griffin
Produced byJason Faller and Kynan Griffin
Starring
CinematographyA. Todd Smith
Edited byRob York
Music byNathaniel Drew
Production
company
Arrowstorm Entertainment
LanguageEnglish

Mythica is a series of primarily direct-to-video fantasy films. The films are produced by Arrowstorm Entertainment, with first film Mythica: A Quest for Heroes being partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign that collected $94,294. [1] There are five films in the Mythica series, all produced and co-written by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin. [2] The films star Melanie Stone as Marek, an escaped slave girl and budding magician, and co-star Kevin Sorbo as Gojun Pye the magician who trains her, along with Adam Johnson, Jake Stormoen, and Nicola Posener as those that team up with Marek on various quests together.

Contents

Film series

  1. Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (December 8, 2014)
  2. Mythica: The Darkspore (June 19, 2015)
  3. Mythica: The Necromancer (December 19, 2015)
  4. Mythica: The Iron Crown (May 14, 2016)
  5. Mythica: The Godslayer (December 17, 2016)
  6. Mythica: Stormbound (January 31, 2024) [3]

Cast and characters

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This section includes characters who have appeared in a film in the series.

Character
Film
A
Quest
for
Heroes		The
Darkspore		The
Necromancer		The
Iron
Crown		The
Godslayer		Stormbound
2014201520162024
Introduced in A Quest for Heroes
ThaneAdam Johnson
TeelaNicola Posener
MarekMelanie StoneDoes not appear
Dagen Jake Stormoen Does not appear
HammerheadChristopher Robin MillerDoes not appear
Gojun Pye Kevin Sorbo Does not appear
Peregus Malister Robert Jayne Does not appear
RawheadJames Christian MorrisDoes not appear
CaerynNatalie Devine RiskasDoes not appear
VagamalMichael FlynnDoes not appear
MagistrateNyk FryDoes not appear
KishkumenRyan PalmerDoes not appear
TersaClare NiederpruemDoes not appear
Ana-SettLauren SpaldingDoes not appearNicola PosenerLauren SpaldingTBA
Mekru NomKee ChanDoes not appearTBA
Egan "The Stranger"Sebastian BarrDoes not appear Will Kemp
NarneAngella JoyDoes not appear
Introduced in The Darkspore
SzorlokDoes not appear Matthew Mercer
QoleDoes not appearRocky MyersDoes not appear
AlthalosDoes not appearBrogan JohnsonDoes not appear
EmbarrDoes not appearLarissa BeckDoes not appear
Introduced in The Necromancer
BetyllaDoes not appear Philip Brodie Does not appear
The EelDoes not appearDavey MorrisonDoes not appear
Captain PurioDoes not appearGeoff HansenDoes not appear
YuliyaDoes not appearEvie BrodieDoes not appear
Introduced in The Iron Crown
ThorstenDoes not appearJames GaisfordDoes not appear
Caia-BekkDoes not appear Ash Santos Does not appear
RezzikDoes not appearJasen WadeDoes not appear
Sergeant LipschitzDoes not appearMaclain NelsonDoes not appear
The GuardianDoes not appearChris RueckertDoes not appear
Admiral
Borlund Hess		Does not appear Eve Mauro Does not appear
Introduced in The Godslayer
General ArgusDoes not appearClint VanderlindenDoes not appear
General RogharDoes not appearJames Martin
Trenton JamesV		Does not appear
TekDoes not appear Kristian Nairn TBA
Introduced in Stormbound
ArlinDoes not appearRyann Bailey
LeyarisDoes not appearDave Martinez
Rhistel KriswoodDoes not appearPaul Cartwright
EridDoes not appearNate Morley
GiblockDoes not appearJoe Abraham
Aymon ThadruckDoes not appearTod Huntington

Production

The film was partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign that collected $94,294, and which described the proposed film as an "epic fantasy". [4] [1] It was produced by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin for Arrowstorm Entertainment, directed by Anne K. Black, and written by Black, Faller and Griffin.

Mythica was filmed in Utah, where producers/writers Faller and Griffin are from, and where Arrowstorm Entertainment is based. [5] [6] The films received a tax credit of up to $278,000 in 2015 for filming in Utah from the Governor's Office of Economic Development Board. [7]

Kevin Sorbo, who plays one of the roles in the film, said about the project: "Mythica"— a movie like "The Lord of the Rings", where I play someone like Gandalf... [8]

A Quest for Heroes

Mythica: A Quest for Heroes is a 2014 Arrowstorm Entertainment fantasy film written and directed by Anne K. Black and starring Melanie Stone and Kevin Sorbo. [9] The movie is the first of a five-part film series, and was partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign that collected $94,294. [1]

Plot

Marek, a young aspiring magician and slave girl, dreams of escaping her drab life and taking on exciting adventures, while being taught by sorcerer Gojun Pye. When she meets the priestess Teela in Hammerhead's tavern who is seeking help, Marek offers her assistance, running away from her owner. While beginning to use her magic abilities and using a brace to help her with her injured leg, Marek assembles a motley troupe, consisting of herself; Teela; Thane, who is a former soldier/warrior and who rescued Marek from a harassing Peregus Malister; and Dagen, who is a half-elf, thief, and womanizer. Together, they go in search of Teela's sister, who is in possession of a mysterious stone that was taken from a temple of Teela's people, and who was kidnapped by a wild ogre and a few orcs who want the stone for their necromancer master, Sung Hill. [6] [4]

The Darkspore

Mythica: The Darkspore Mythica, The Darkspore official poster.jpeg
Mythica: The Darkspore

Mythica: The Darkspore is a 2015 Arrowstorm Entertainment fantasy film, the second installment in the Mythica series. [9] It is directed by Anne K. Black and co-written by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin, starring Kevin Sorbo [4] [6] and Melanie Stone.

Plot

Following immediately from the end of the A Quest for Heroes, Teela's sister is killed by Kishkumen, a dark magician with yellow eyes, who also steals the mysterious stone that she was carrying, and wants to give it to his master Szorlok.

Meanwhile, sorcerer Gojun Pye tells Marek about the stone: a fragment/shard of the full Darkspore, a piece that can give the user a great immense power, which once belonged to the Lich King, and that was found by Szorlok and his followers years ago, split into fragments, but after using his followers to reunite the Darkspore he was stopped by Gojun Pye and other sorcerers from getting the power from the piece, and in the aftermath, the sorcerers split the piece into four fragments/shards and hid them apart in the world (one was with Teela's sister and her people, a second was hidden in a dragon's lair in an ancient ruined city).

Gojun Pye also tells Marek about who she is: a necromancer, just like Szorlok, and that is why Szorlok also wants Marek at his side, because the potential power she holds within. That power is also what Teela sensed in the previous film, while trying to heal Marek's leg, and it's also what might drive Marek to the darkness if she is not careful when using it.

Marek and her company must go on a journey to the ruined city, and prevent the evil necromancer Szorlok from obtaining all the shards of the Darkspore, or all will be lost. Therefore, they must get the hidden shard from the ruined city before Kishkumen does. Along the way they meet Qole, a mysterious dark-elf warrior with his face marked with strange drawings that allows him to be unharmed by dark magic, who allies himself with Marek after she saves him from faeries, and they are also pursued by Peregus Malister and his forces, who wants revenge from events of the previous film.

The Necromancer

Mythica: The Necromancer Mythica, The Necromancer official poster.jpeg
Mythica: The Necromancer

Mythica: The Necromancer is the third installment of Mythica, [9] directed by A. Todd Smith and written by Jason Faller, Liska Ostojic, and Justin Partridge. It stars Kevin Sorbo [4] [6] and Melanie Stone.

Plot

Marek is beginning to master more advanced magic, by training with Gojun Pye and receiving a staff from him, and even helping him stop some orcs who had set a trap for him, although he reminds her that she needs to be careful about her necromancer powers which can lead her to darkness, because by taking life force from someone it would be hard for her to come back from it. He details a bit more of the past (which he began telling Marek in the previous film) and about his former team of sorcerers and their enemy Szorlok: they were called The Red Thorns, they were powerful and invincible, the envy of the realm, and Szorlok wanted to stop the invading vitalian soldiers, by becoming the Lich King and thus rising and controlling hordes of undead. By defeating Szorlok, one of the sorcerers sacrificed himself, and that led to the disband of the group, and also to the accomplished invasion by the vitalian soldiers as a side-effect. For the ritual to become the Lich King, after gathering the four pieces of the Darkspore, Szorlok will need other necromancers, and that includes Marek, so she must lay low as to not be found by Szorlok. Gojun Pye reminds Marek that Szorlok already has two pieces of the Darkspore.

Meanwhile, Marek and her group have become respected in Hammerhead's tavern, they adopt the name of Red Thorns, and Thane becomes more involved with Teela. When he is taken hostage by Peregus Malister, the cruel master of the Thieves Guild who is seeking revenge for having been forced to sign for the freedom of Marek, she must embark on a corrupt mission to serve the Thieves Guild with her team of would-be heroes, by retrieving some ilystrium from The Eel (his name later revealed to be Kelton) whose whereabouts are known to a Captain named Purio, while in the midst of creatures called gooches, and also several golgotians, as well as cave demons.

The Iron Crown

The fourth film in the Mythica series. Directed by John Lyde and written by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin.

When daring young wizard Marek steals the final piece of the all-powerful Darkspore she embarks on a desperate quest to deliver the cursed artefact to the gods. But is caught in a death race between a ruthless team of elite mercenaries and a trinity of demons.

The Godslayer

'Mythica: The Godslayer (titled Mythica: The Dragon Slayer in the United Kingdom) is the fifth installment of Mythica, [9] directed by John Lyde and written by Jason Faller, Kynan Griffin, starring Kevin Sorbo [4] [6] and Melanie Stone.

As the Lich King's zombie legions ravage the world, Marek and Dagen embark on a quest to obtain a weapon from the gods.

Stormbound

Mythica: Stormbound is slated to be the sixth installment, which was successfully funded on Kickstarter on December 09, 2022 with Jake Stormoen returning to direct the film. Confirmed returning cast include Matthew Mercer, Nicola Posener, and Adam Johnson. The story is set to take place some time after the events of the fifth film and will introduce new heroes and villains. [10]

Reception

SciFiPulse.Net called Mythica: A Quest for Heroes "a solid opening chapter" and said that although the show was not particularly original it was "an unabashed celebration of role-playing tropes" and that "Despite the engaging storyline and confident acting some of the CGI [...] was ropey to say the least." [11] Eyeforfilm.co.uk gave it 2.5 out of 5 and called it "a flawed but enjoyable film." [12]

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