Jason and the Argonauts (2000)

Country of Origin: USA
Date(s) of Broadcast: 2000
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 90 mins
Format: colour
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Hallmark Entertainment
Executive Producers: Robert Halmi Sr, Robert Halmi Jr
Producer: Dyson Lovell
Line Producer: Chris Thompson
Production Manager (Turkey): Alí Akdeniz
Unit Production Manager: Chris Brock
Unit Manager (Turkey): Funda Odemis
Production Coordinator: Paula McBreen
2nd Unit Production Coordinator: Mel Claus
Assistant Production Coordinator: Virginia Murray

SCRIPT
Script: Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet

DIRECTION
Director: Nick Willing
1st Assistant Director: Gareth Tandy
2nd Unit 1st Assistant Director: Ken Shane
2nd Assistant Director: Toby Hefferman
2nd Unit 2nd Assistant Director: Trevor Puckle
3rd Assistant Director: Tamana Bleasdale
2nd Unit 3rd Assistant Director: Carlos Fidel

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Sergei Kozlov
Camera Operator: Julian Morson
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Tim Wooster
Focus Pullers: Danny Shelmerdine, Nathan Mann
2nd Unit Focus Puller: Sean Connor
Clapper Loader: Berndt Wiese
Gaffer: Dave Ridout
Rigging Gaffer: Mark 'Giffer' Evans
Electrician: Patrick O'Flynn
Best Boy: Wayne Leach
Generator Operator: Elliot Laidlow
Grip: Adrian McCarthy
2nd Unit Grip: Ray Hall
Crane Grip: Rupert Lloyd-Parry
Stills: Erik Heinila
Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Sean Barton
1st Assistant Editor: Tasim Persaud
Post-Production Coordinator: Dani Karas

MUSIC
Music: Simon Boswell
Music Editor: Gerard McCann
Conductor / Orchestrator: Terry Davies

SOUND
Sound Designer: Blair Jollands
Sound Mixer: David Crozier
2nd Unit Sound Mixer: Clive Copland
Boom Operator: Gary Dodkin
Re-Recording Mixers: David Humphries, Alan Sallabank, Robert Thompson, Simon Day
Supervising Sound Editors: Kevin Brazier, Steve Griffiths
Digital Sound Editors: Roger Dobson, Wayne Brooks
Dialogue Editor: Phil Barnes
Foley Mixers: Robert Brazier, Trevor Swanscott
Sound Maintenance: Paul Munro

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Anne Spiers
Make Up: Lizzie Georgiou, Julie Wright, Nicky Knowles
2nd Unit Make Up: Yasmin Iqbal
Key Hair: Maria Teresa Corridoni
Hair: Barry Richardson, Desideria Corridoni, Mario Pegoretti
Costume Designer: Carlo Poggioli
Assistant Costume Designer: Giovanni Casalnuovo
Costume Supervisor: Graham Churchyard
Costume Workshop Master: Salvatore Salzano
Tailor: Adriana Mattiozzi
Wardrobe Supervisor: Lindsay Pugh
Wardrobe Assistants: Adam Roach, Azmin Jaffer, Hilary Guthrie, Silvia Guidoni

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Designer: Mark Coulier
Prosthetic Make Up: Mark Coulier, Paul Spateri

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Richard Conway
Senior Special Effects Technicians: Timothy Willis, Andrew Kelly, Terry Bridle
Special Effects Technicians: Ceri Nicholls, Sam Conway, Terry Palmer
Harpies Sequence: Jim Henson's Creature Shop

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Executive Producer: Fiona Walkinshaw
Visual Effects Producer: Michael Turoff
Visual Effects Line Producer: Tim Keene
Visual Effects Supervisor: David Booth
Visual Effects Coordinator: Michael John Davis
Visual Effects: Hal Bertram, Karen Halliwell, Val Wardlaw
Senior Visual Effects Artists: Avtar Bains, George Roper, Pedro Sabrosa
Visual Effects Artists: Ben Cronin, Kate Windibank, Sirio Quintavalle
Technical Director: David Marsh
3rd Assistant Director: Janine Law
CGI Supervisors: Andy Lomas, Hal Bertram, Alec Knox
Senior 3D Animators: Carlos M. Rosas, Virgil Manning, Daren Horley
3D Animator: Stuart M. Ellis
Animators: Framestore, Marco Marenghi, Max Tyrie, Sophie Lodge
Hitite Soldiers CG Animator: David Hulin
Digital Paint Artist: Sharon Lock
Lead Visual Effects Compositors: Pedro Sabrosa, George Roper
Digital Compositors: Jolene McCaffrey, Karim Sahai
Mastergrade Colourist: Asa Shoul

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Roger Hall
Supervising Art Directors: John Fenner, John King
Art Directors: Michael Boone, Dennis Bosher, Gary Freeman
Assistant Art Director: Peter James
Stand-By Art Director: Eddie Andres
Set Decorator: Karen Brookes
Property Master: Paul Purdy
Dressing Props: Colin Burgess, Colin Gray, Roger Holden
Stand-By Propman: Hugh Fottrell
Stand-By Props: Alfred Smith, Kevin Wheeler
Prop Buyer: Charlotte Taylor
Prop Maker: Toby Hawkes
Property Storeman: Bruce Cheesman
Construction Manager: Geoff Kingsley
Assistant Construction Managers: Robert Devine, Steve Fitzwater
Stand-By Carpenter: Dave Philpott
Stand-By Painter: Peter Mounsey
Head Scenic Artist: James Gemmill
Scenic Artist: Marcus Williams
Storyboard Artists: Dermot Power, Julian Caldow

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Jean Bourne
2nd Unit Script Supervisor: Kathy Hughes
Production Accountant: Andy Hennigan
Post-Production Accountant: Tarn Harper
Assistant Accountants: Fry Martin, Rita Kozma, Tina Ellis, Tina McConnell
Assistant to Director: Aminta Townshend (uncredited)
Marine Coordinator: R.H. Davies
Production Runner: Michael D. Walsh

LOCATIONS
Locations: Antalya, Turkey; London, England, UK
Studio: Shepperton Studios, England, UK
Location Manager: Bahadir Atay

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Jordi Casares
Assistant Stunt Coordinator: Gábor Piroch
Stunts: Zoltan Gulyas Kiss

CASTING
Casting: Lauris Freeman, Julie Selzer
Casting (UK): Joyce Gallie
Background Casting: Chuck Douglas
Extras Casting: 2020 Casting Ltd

CAST
Jason London (Jason)
Jolene Blalock (Medea)
Dennis Hopper (Pelias)
Frank Langella (Aertes)
Natasha Henstridge (Hypsipyle)
Derek Jacobi (Phineas)
Brian Thompson (Hercules)
Mark Lewis Jones (Mopsus)
Diana Kent (Polymele)
Tom Harper (Acastus)
Olga Sosnovska (Atalanta)
David Calder (Argos)
Adrian Lester (Orpheus)
Kieran O'Brien (Actor)
Rhys Miles Thomas (Zetes)
James Callis (Aspyrtes)
Angus MacFadyen (Zeus)
Olivia Williams (Hera)
Omid Djalili (Castor)
John Sharian (Pollux)
John Bennett (Idas)
Ciarán Hinds (King Aeson)
Greg Hicks (priest)
Freda Dowie (Hera as old peasant woman)
Hugh Quarshie (the centaur)
Charles Cartmell (Laertes)
Norman Roberts (Echion)
Mark Folan Deasy (Iphicles)
Elliot Levey (Canthus)
Xavier Anderson (Phanos)
Dodger Phillips (Tiphys)
Peter Gevisser (Budes)
Zeta Graff (Hypsipyle 1st general)
Adam Cooper (Eros)
Mickey Churchill (boy Jason)
Andrew Tansey (Aertes 1st general)
Richard Bonehill (Aertes 2nd general)
Zoe Eeles (Actor's Lemnite girl)
Alit Kreiz (high priestess)
Andrew Scarborough (Aeson's soldier)
Alan Stocks (Pelias bodyguard)
Suzanne Harbison (Mopsus Lemnite girl)
Freya Archard (Zetes Lemnite girl - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Twenty years after the murder of his father by his uncle Pelias, Jason returns home to claim the throne of his kingdom. But Pelias sentences him to death and Jason is forced to go on a quest for the Golden Fleece to appease his uncle. Gathering a crew around him, he sets sail on the Argo, embarking on a perilous adventure.

USA
Television Distributor: NBC
DVD Distributor: Artisan Entertainment (10638)

Germany
Rating: 12

2000
May
7: USA - Part I television broadcast (on NBC)
8: USA - Part II television broadcast (on NBC)

August
15: USA - DVD release (Artisan Entertainment (10638))

December
6: France - theatrical release

2001
January
7: Germany - Part I television broadcast (on NBC)

June
15: UK - Part I television broadcast (on Channel 4)
16: UK - Part II television broadcast (on Channel 4)

2002
January
4: France - Part I television broadcast (on NBC)

Jason and the Golden Fleece - working title
Jason und der Kampf um das goldene Vlies - German title
Jason et les argonautes - French title

2000
Emmy Awards, USA
Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Mark Coulier, Nicky Knowles, Paul Spateri, Anne Spiers, Julie Wright, Paul Gooche) - nominated (for part I)
Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Hal Bertram, David Booth, Daren Horley, Alec Knox, Andy Lomas, Virgil Manning, Carlos M. Rosas, Pedro Sabrosa, George Roper) - nominated (for part II)

2001
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA
Saturn Award Best Single Genre Television Presentation - nominated

American Society of Cinematographers, USA
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week / Mini-Series / Pilot for Network or Basic Broadcast TV (Sergei Kozlov) - nominated

Golden Satellite Awards, USA
Best Miniseries - nominated

SEE ALSO
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

MAGAZINES

American Cinematographer vol.82 no.5 (May 2001) pp.76-78 (USA)
article

Variety 8 May 2000 (USA)
illustrated credits, review

KEYWORDS

argonauts; mythology; monsters; harpies; ships; sword fights; revenge; golden fleece

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009