As everyone returns home, Jack warns that the giants are using Roderick's beans to create beanstalks to descend down to Earth and attack Cloister. Jack, Isabelle, and Elmont all survive the fall after the beanstalk is cut down. Elmont kills Roderick, but Fallon takes the crown before Elmont can claim it, and Elmont is forced to escape down the beanstalk. Jack and Isabelle head down the beanstalk, while Elmont stays to confront Roderick. Seeing the giant's body, Brahmwell orders the beanstalk cut down to avoid an invasion by the giants. The trio makes for the beanstalk, where Jack causes the giant guarding the beanstalk to fall off the realm's edge. Jack rescues Isabelle and Elmont as one of the giants prepares to cook Elmont as a pig-in-a-blanket. He tells the giants they will attack Cloister at dawn and gives them permission to eat Isabelle and Elmont. As the giants prepare to kill their remaining prisoners, Roderick walks in and enslaves the giants with the crown. There, Jack finds the imprisoned Isabelle and Elmont. Jack follows the giant to their stronghold, where the two-headed giant leader, Fallon, has killed Crawe. Meanwhile, Roderick's group encounters two other giants one eats Wicke, but before they can do the same to Roderick, Roderick dons the magic crown. Jack's group is trapped by a giant, who takes everyone prisoner except Jack.
At the top, they discover the giants' realm and decide to split into two groups: one with Jack, Elmont, and Crawe, and the other including Roderick and Wicke, but not before Roderick forcibly takes the remaining beans from Jack (although Jack manages to save one for himself). As they climb, Roderick and Wicke cut the safety rope, intentionally killing some of the knights. Jack, Roderick, and Roderick's attendant Wicke volunteer to join the king's knights, led by Elmont and his second in-command, Crawe, and climb the beanstalk in search of Isabelle. As it rains, one of the beans takes root and grows into a massive beanstalk that carries the house and Isabelle into the sky as Jack falls to the ground. Likewise, Jack's uncle scolds him for being foolish before throwing the beans on the floor and leaving the house.ĭetermined to be free, Isabelle sneaks out of the castle and seeks shelter from the rain in Jack's house. Back at the castle, Isabelle quarrels with her father, King Brahmwell, as she wants to explore the kingdom, but he wants her to stay and marry Roderick. The monk offers Jack some magic beans he stole from Roderick as collateral for Jack's horse. Meanwhile, Lord Roderick returns to his study, only to find that a monk has robbed him. There, Jack spots Isabelle and becomes enamored with her after defending her honor from a group of hooligans. Ten years later, Jack goes into town to sell his horse to support his uncle's farm. At the same time, Princess Isabelle becomes fascinated with the same legend. In the Kingdom of Cloister, Jack, a young farm boy, is fascinated by the legend of Erik, an ancient king who defeated an army of invading giants from a realm in the sky by controlling them with a magical crown. Jack the Giant Slayer was released on home media on June 18, 2013. The film received mixed reviews from critics and is considered a box office failure, losing between $125 million and $140 million for Legendary Pictures. Jack the Giant Slayer premiered on Februin Hollywood and was released theatrically in the United States on Main 2D and 3D. Release of the film was moved back in post-production to allow more time for special effects and marketing. The main characters were cast between February and March 2011, and principal photography began in April 2011 in England with locations in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. Caruso was hired to direct the film in January 2009, but in September of that year, Caruso was replaced by Singer, who hired McQuarrie and Studney to rework the script. The film tells the story of Jack, a young farmhand who must rescue a princess from a race of giants after inadvertently opening a gateway to their world.ĭevelopment of Jack the Giant Slayer began in 2005, when Lemke first pitched the idea. The film is directed by Bryan Singer with a screenplay written by Darren Lemke, Christopher McQuarrie and Dan Studney and stars Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, Bill Nighy and Ewan McGregor. Jack the Giant Slayer (previously titled Jack the Giant Killer) is a 2013 American heroic fantasy adventure film based on the British fairy tales " Jack the Giant Killer" and " Jack and the Beanstalk".