Shortly afterwards, a group of heavily armed Americans arrive in an armored convoy with a Chieftain tank and an AgustaWestland AW109 utility helicopter. Quinn, Creedy, and Jared rescue them with old fire engines, but the dragon kills Eddie's son before escaping and burns the majority of the crops, leaving the community without a means to feed itself. One man is killed and the rest are surrounded by fire.
Eddie ( David Kennedy) and his group steal a truck to pilfer the crops early, but they are attacked by a dragon. The community is short on supplies and in a state of unrest pending the harvest of their meager crops. Quinn, along with his best friend Creedy ( Gerard Butler) leads a community of survivors at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland where he plans to outlast dragons until they go back into hibernation as insurance, he shares his notes and plans with Jared (Scott Moutter) an orphan he rescued as a child and is grooming to lead the community. The dragons, now starving as well, are dying off and increasingly aggressive in search of food. Once re-emerged, the population surged to several million, prompting most militaries to use increasingly devastating weapons, finally leading to targeting the largest population areas with nuclear weapons in 2010 however, this only hastened the destruction, and by 2020, humans are nearly extinct. Scientists discovered that dragons were the species responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs and most plant life on the planet when they razed it with fire the ash from this event caused the first Ice age before the dragons disappeared, presumably in a cycle of hibernation. Years later, Quinn ( Christian Bale), now an adult, records the events that transpired after the first dragon sighting. The dragon flies out of the Underground, and soon more dragons appear. The only survivor is a boy, Quinn Abercromby (Ben Thornton), whose mother, Karen ( Alice Krige)-the project engineer-is crushed to death protecting him. Soon after the start of the 21st century, during construction on the London Underground, workers penetrate a cave and a huge dragon emerges from hibernation, incinerating the workers with its breath. Upon release, it received generally mixed reviews from critics and audiences and was a box office disappointment, grossing far less than expected, only $82 million on a $60 million budget. The film was released by Touchstone Pictures on 12 July 2002.
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 is set in England in the year 2020, twenty years after London tunneling project workers inadvertently awakened dragons from centuries of slumber and the creatures have subsequently replaced humans as the dominant species on Earth.
The film also features Izabella Scorupco and Gerard Butler. Reign of Fire is a 2002 post-apocalyptic science fantasy film directed by Rob Bowman and starring Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale, with the screenplay written by Matt Greenberg, Gregg Chabot, and Kevin Peterka.
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