Reign of Fire

Plot

In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit—leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons—has much at stake: his mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.

About Reign of Fire

Reign of Fire is a 2002 American post-apocalyptic science fantasy monster action film directed by Rob Bowman and starring Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco and Gerard Butler with the screenplay written by Matt Greenberg, Gregg Chabot, and Kevin Peterka. The film is set in England in the year 2020, eighteen years after a London Underground tunnelling project inadvertently awakened dragons from centuries of slumber and the creatures have subsequently replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth. With the fate of mankind at stake, two surviving parties, led by Quinn Abercromby (Bale) and Denton Van Zan (McConaughey), find that they must work together to hunt down and destroy the beasts in a desperate attempt to take back the world. The film was released by Buena Vista Pictures through the Touchstone Pictures label on July 12, 2002. Upon release, it received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing $82.2 million on a $60 million budget.

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