The Digidestined and The Secret of Kells

The Digidestined and The Secret of Kells is a 2018 fantasy film written, produced and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and executive produced by Angelina Jolie and Jordan Peele. The eighth film was an international co-production among companies based in eleven countries and regions: Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Hungary and the United States. The film stars Charlie Plummer, Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Jena Malone, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Matthew Beard, Sebastian De Souza, Emma Stone, Jack Dylan Grazer, Dylan Minette, Noah Jupe, Mads Mikkelsen, Dafne Keen, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, Vithaya Pansringarm, John Turturro, Omar Sy, Gordon Brown and Jared Leto as Gennai with David Tennant, Ewan McGregor and Andrew Garfield portraying transformations of Leto's character as he "disguises himself" threw time-travel and features the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Tim Roth, Kristen Wiig, Jamie Bell, Brie Larson, Pierre Niney, Matt Smith, Jason Isaacs, Woody Harrelson and Tom Felton. Principal photography took place during September and October 2017 in Wales, Dublin and Denmark.
==Plot==
This film is set in the ninth century and gives a fictionalized account of the creation of the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript and known today as one of Ireland's greatest national treasures. Obsessed with building a mighty wall to keep marauding from the Viking raiders from destroying the Abbey of Kells, Abbot Cellach (Mads Mikkelsen) expects his young nephew Brendan (Noah Jupe) and the DigiDestined (Charlie Plummer, Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Jena Malone, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Matthew Beard, Sebastian De Souza, Emma Stone, Jack Dylan Grazer and Dylan Minette) and their digimon partners (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Geoffrey Rush, Kristen Wiig, Jamie Bell, Brie Larson, Pierre Niney, Matt Smith, Jason Isaacs, Woody Harrelson and Tom Felton) to follow in his footsteps. Brendan and The DigiDestined has apprenticed in the scriptorium of the monastery and has heard the story of Aidan of Iona (Colin Farrell), a master illuminator who is working on the Book of Iona. Later, Aidan himself comes to the monastery, accompanied by his cat Pangur Bán. Brother Aidan has escaped from the Vikings who have destroyed his own monastery, and had brought the unfinished Book of Iona with him. Taking Brendan and The DigiDestined under his wing, Aidan asks The DigiDestined to venture into the forest to look for gall nuts to make ink and trusted with permission from Gennai (Jared Leto). there they meet a forest spirit named Aisling (Dafne Kaan). She is suspicious of The DigiDestined at first, but eventually guides them to the gall nuts and befriends with them. later Cellach learns of this and forbids Brendan from leaving the abbey's confines, The DigiDestined and Brendan secretly defies it as Aidan teaches them illumination while Aisling introduces them to a wider world. Eventually, Brendan and The DigiDestined learns that Aidan needs his help to finish Book of Iona due to his failing eyes and hands. However, Aidan finds that a special lens he possessed was lost when he left Iona: the Eye of Collum-Cille. Aidan reveals that his predecessor obtained it from Crom Cruach, a pagan god with whom The DigiDestined and Brendan had a frightful encounter prior. When The DigiDestined and Brendan tries to sneak out of the abbey to go to Crom's cave to obtain the other eye, they are caught and confined to his room by Cellach. Pangur Bán ventures into the forest to get Aisling's help. Aisling frees Brendan and The DigiDestined, using her magic to turn Pangur Bán into a spirit that retrieves the key to his room, and together they flee into the forest. When The DigiDestined and Brendan tells Aisling of their plan, she pleads with them not to go through with it, revealing to him that Crom Cruach killed her people and her mother and will surely kill him as well. The DigiDestined tells her that if they doesn't try to get the eye, Brendan will never complete the book. Eventually Aisling agrees to help them and manages to get The DigiDestined and Brendan into the cave, but not before being consumed by Crom's darkness in the process. After some struggling, The DigiDestined and Brendan defeats Crom by using Imperialdramon Fighter Mode and Omnimon to get the god's remaining eye and imprisoning them in a circle of fireball. With the eye in his possession, Brendan goes back to the Abbey and continues to help Aidan in secret with Gennai (Andrew Garfield). Shortly thereafter, the Vikings arrive and Cellach locks The DigiDestined, Gennai (Ewan McGregor), his nephew and Aidan in the scriptorium as his plan to protect everyone from the invaders falls apart. Managing to escape the carnage, The DigiDestined and their Digimon, Gennai (David Tennant), Brendan and Aidan travel across Ireland, finishing the Book of Iona over the years (expect for the DigiDestined in still their age due to time travel). Inheriting the book after Aidan's passing, a now adult Brendan (Cillian Murphy) ends up back in the forest of his youth where he meets Aisling in her white wolf form (Christina Hendricks in an uncredited secret role), and she guides them to the village. It turned out only the villagers who made it to the abbey tower survived, along with a guilt-ridden Cellach. Now near death, Cellach finally reunites with The DigiDestined and the nephew that they thought had perished in the massacre long ago, and is able to see the completed Book of Kells. in the five minute post-credits scene, Before the book was completed, Set after the events of The Eds's Adventures of Ice Age: Continental Drift and set before the events of both The Eds's Adventures of Ice Age: Collision Course and Manny, Sid and Diego's Adventures of Nightcrawler, The DigiDestined returned to the forest outside of Kells just to find Aisling. They found her. Shira and Diego alongside with them asked that she could join The Atlantean Alliance. And Diego told her not to worry about the Horde of Darkness no evil can find her. She agreed and joined them. Diego and Shira became Aisling's adoptive parents.
==Trivia==
*director Nicolas Winding Refn, executive producers Angelina Jolie and Jordan Peele and Sonic Cinematic Universe cited The Revenant, the three Nordic movies Let the Right One In, Rare Exports and Trollhunter, Beowulf, The Thief and the Cobbler and Mulan as infleunces on The Digidestined and The Secret of Kells.
*According to director Nicolas Winding Refn, actors Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Tim Roth, Jamie Bell, Pierre Niney, Matt Smith, Jason Isaacs and Tom Felton actually recorded their lines in London while Samuel L. Jackson, Kristen Wiig, Brie Larson and Woody Harrelson recorded their lines in Los Angeles.
*Colin Farrell filmed his supporting role in four days before wrapping on his movie Dumbo. 
*In order to shoot the snowy Abbey of Kells, director Nicolas Winding Refn and executive producers Angelina Jolie and Jordan Peele had no choice but to relocate the entire production to Greenland to make the battle in the snow to be actual snow.
*In October 2017 it was reported that the film's budget had ballooned from the original $50 million to $80 million. By the time production wrapped, it had reached $135 million, mainly because they had to move production from Wales and Ireland to Denmark.
*The film was shot in 10 different locations and three different countries: Wales, Ireland and Denmark. Specifically, Wales filming took place in Denbighshire and Gwynedd including Lagan Valley, Belfast and Crag Cave in Ireland and at Pinewood Studios in Wales. While the initial plan was to film entirely in Wales, they needed to the battle scene in snow during its final scene for its film. leading director Nicolas Winding Refn and producers Angelina Jolie and Jordan Peele to locations at the tip of Greenland, with snow on the ground, to shoot the film's battle scene and the ending.
*Mads Mikkelsen spented a week at St. Buenos, a Jesuit retreat in St. Asaph, near Prestatyn, Wales. He didn't speak for a week, per the retreat rules, so he could get a feel for the spirituality needed for his role, watched J.K. Simmons's Oscar-winning supporting performance in Whiplash and David Morse's performance in Down in the Valley for his inspiration for the character Abbot Cellach, got injuired for real after being wounded by a arrow, speak Native Irish for his role and also study Celtic mythology for his performance for the movie. Mikkelsen described the movie he took "the scariest role he ever tooker at the peak of his career".
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