Kingdom of Heaven (film)

Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ridley Scott
Written by	William Monahan
Produced by	Ridley Scott
Starring	Orlando Bloom; Eva Green; Jeremy Irons; David Thewlis; Brendan Gleeson; Marton Csokas; Liam Neeson;
Cinematography	John Mathieson
Edited by	Dody Dorn
Music by	Harry Gregson-Williams
Production; companies	Scott Free Productions; Inside Track; Studio Babelsberg;
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	2 May 2005 (London premiere); 5 May 2005 (Germany); 6 May 2005 (North America, United Kingdom);
Running time	144 minutes ; 194 minutes (Director's cut)
Countries	United Kingdom; Germany; United States;
Languages	English; Arabic; Italian; Latin;
Budget	$130 million
Box office	$218.1 million

Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It features an ensemble cast including Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, Edward Norton, and Liam Neeson.

The film is a heavily fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the Third Crusade, focusing mainly on Balian of Ibelin who fights to defend the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin.

Filming took place in Ouarzazate, Morocco and in Spain, at the Loarre Castle (Huesca), Segovia, Ávila, Palma del Río, and Seville's Casa de Pilatos and Alcázar. The film was released on 6 May 2005 by 20th Century Fox and received mixed reviews upon theatrical release. It grossed $218 million worldwide. On 23 December 2005, Scott released a director's cut, which many reviewers called the definitive version of the film.^[5]^[6]

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^ "KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 20 April 2005. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
^ "Kingdom of Heaven" Archived 25 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Film.com.
^ ^a ^b "Kingdom of Heaven" Archived 14 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Box Office Mojo.
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