From Ouija to Battleship (aka sinking ships), a number of games have already been made into films. A film version of Monopoly is even being planned. But the Netflix film, which will be released today, October 23, 2024, as a fantasy adventure, prefers to devote itself to an extremely popular board game from France: The werewolves of Mirkwood.
Netflix Fantasy: The Werewolves of Mirkwood is a film adaptation of a world-famous game
Almost everyone has probably played this game at a party with friends or family, in which a perpetrator goes around and “murders” people at night. From round to round, all survivors have to discuss who could have killed the corpse in their midst. The Netflix fantasy film The Werewolves of Mirkwood takes up exactly that from today and An unsuspecting family plunges into a medieval werewolf hunt after finding an old game.
Without knowing exactly how this happened, grandfather (Jean Reno), father (Franck Dubosc), mother (Suzanne Clément) and children find each other suddenly in 1497 again, where executions are the order of the day. Only if they do that Unmask monstersyou can go home again. But what if the werewolf is one of them?
Watch the trailer for Netflix’s The Werewolves of Mirkwood here
The Werewolves of Mirkwood – Trailer (German) HD
The game The Werewolves of Mirkwood *, which was even used in the Netflix film with the same design, was 1986 by Philippe des Pallières and Hervé Marly in France as Les loups-garous de Thiercelieux published, a variant of the similar board game mafia. Internationally it is as Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow known.
The fantasy comedy, which, like Jumanji, transports its characters from the present into their game, was shot by director François Uzan (creator of Netflix’s Lupine) in the Czech Republic and, according to the Prague Reporter, took advantage of this Medieval set from the Knightfall series. Series fans can see if they recognize some of the places.
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