Quest for Camelot (released internationally as The Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot) is a 1998 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and directed by Frederik Du Chau and very loosely based on the 1976 novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman. It features the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jaleel White, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne, John Gielgud (his final film), Frank Welker, and Sarah Rayne. Andrea Corr, Bryan White, Celine Dion, and Steve Perry perform the singing voices for Gilsig, Elwes, Seymour, and Brosnan.
In May 1995, the film, initially titled The Quest for the Holy Grail, was announced to be Warner Bros. Feature Animation's first project, with Bill Kroyer as director. The film went into production later that year, but was delayed when animators were reassigned to help finish Space Jam (1996). During the interim, the story was heavily re-tooled, among of which the central focus on the Holy Grail would be replaced with Excalibur. This resulted in creative differences, in which Kroyer was replaced with Du Chau. This was later followed with prominent departures of the animation and management staff. Because of the production troubles, the film's release was delayed by six months, from November 1997 to May 1998. Animation was mostly done in Glendale, California and London, England.
Quest for Camelot was released by Warner Bros. under their Family Entertainment label on May 15, 1998 in the United States and Canada. It received mixed reviews and was an "expensive flop", grossing $38.1 million against a $40 million budget. One of the songs, "The Prayer", won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Cast[]
| Character | Actor | ||
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| File:Kayley (Quest for Camelot).png | Kayley
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Jessalyn Gilsig | |
| Andrea Corr (singing) | |||
| Sarah Rayne (younger) | |||
| File:Garrett (Quest for Camelot).png | Garrett
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Cary Elwes | |
| Bryan White (singing) | |||
| File:Ruber (Quest for Camelot).png | Ruber
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Gary Oldman | |
| File:Devon (Quest for Camelot).png | Devon
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Eric Idle | |
| File:Cornwall (Quest for Camelot).png | Cornwall
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Don Rickles | |
| File:Ayden (Quest for Camelot).png | Ayden
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Frank Welker | |
| File:Juliana (Quest for Camelot).png | Juliana
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Jane Seymour | |
| Céline Dion (singing) | |||
| File:King Arthur (Quest for Camelot).png | King Arthur
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Pierce Brosnan | |
| Steve Perry (singing) | |||
| File:Griffin (Quest for Camelot).png | Griffin
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Bronson Pinchot | |
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Bladebeak
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Jaleel White | |
| File:Lionel (Quest for Camelot).png | Lionel
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Gabriel Byrne | |
| File:Merlin (Quest for Camelot).png | Merlin
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John Gielgud | |
International versions[]
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Bulgarian (PRO.BG) |
Вълшебният меч |
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Bulgarian (HBO) |
Вълшебният меч |
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Estonian | Võlumõõk |
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Lithuanian | Stebuklingas kardas |
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Russian | Поиски в Камелоте: Эскалибур. Волшебный меч |
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Ukrainian | Чарівний меч: У пошуках Камелота |
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- ↑ Wayback Machine