Beowulf used to be a Hollywood punch line, the cry agents uttered when confronted by arty screenwriters with an idea: "Oh God, just tell me it's not Beowulfl" So it was a particular triumph when two such scribes, indie filmmaker Roger Avary and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman, took the stage at Comic-Con last summer to introduce Beowulf, Robert Zem-eckis' retelling of the primordial Anglo-Saxon monster epic-in 3-D. "It's the oldest story in the English language," Gaiman declared. "Told," Avary interjected, "with the most modern technoloev available."
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