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Black Knight
The movie poster for Black Knight.
Directed by	Gil Junger
Produced by	Jack Brodsky, Martin Lawrence, Peaches Davis, Jeff Kwatinetz
Written by	Darryl Quarles Peter Gaulke Gerry Swallow
Starring	Martin Lawrence Tom Wilkinson
Music by	Randy Edelman
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	November 21, 2001
Running time	95 min.
Language	English
Budget	$50,000,000 (estimated)
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Black Knight (2001) is a comedy film starring Martin Lawrence. The film was directed by Gil Junger who has more famously directed television sitcoms. In addition to Lawrence, Black Knight boasts an additional cast of Marsha Thomason, Tom Wilkinson, Vincent Regan, Kevin Conway, and others.

The film was released in November of 2001 and went on to gross over thirty million dollars at the North American box office. It was one of Lawrence's poorer performing films at the box office in terms of revenue made.

The film was shot at various locations in North Carolina. The two prime spots used in North Carolina were Wilmington, North Carolina and Carolina Beach, NC.

Jamal Walker (Lawrence) is an everyday slacker with a job at a crummy theme park called Medieval World, which is receiving big competition from another theme park, Castle World. Jamal's life is dramatically altered while cleaning a moat surrounding the park. He finds a medallion in the moat and while trying to pull it from its spot he gets sucked into a past world. Awakening in England, 1328, he bungles his way through this strange new world. Armed with his modern-day lifestyle, he quickly learns he is sort of a fish out of water. The citizens of England believe him to be a French Moor, from Normandy more specifically, because of his odd dress, language, and manner.

Jamal is soon taken in by the reigning king, King Leo (Conway). He is assumed to be a messenger from Normandy who the king believes to be bringing news of an alliance between England and Normandy. He soon nicknames himself "Sir Skywalker" and, after gaining trust from the king, Walker is made head of security for the king. While all of this is going on, Jamal finds out about the ruthless way the king came to power by overthrowing the former queen. He finds out this information from Victoria (Thomason), a chambermaid, and Sir Knolte (Wilkinson), a former knight of the queen who has become an alcoholic. Through their help and his own realization of the situation Jamal soon understands he must help overthrow King Leo and help restore the queen to power.

The film was garnered almost entirely poor reviews, receiving only 13% on Rotten Tomatoes [1], where the "critical consensus" was stated as "Black Knight feels like a lazily constructed movie, filled with lame gags and constant mugging from Lawrence."

• He's About To Get Medieval On You.

• A Comedy About a Man Out of His Time and Out of His Mind

• An Adventure To The Past.

• If he's dead, who get's his wallet

• Motion Picture Sound Editors
  • nominated for Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing - Music - Feature Film, Domestic and Foreign

• Paula Abdul choreographed one of the dance numbers in this movie.
• The Hungarian flag can be seen on several occasions in the film.
• The idea that the king expects an alliance between England and Normandy is historically false, because in 1328 England was already ruled by a line of Norman kings (following their conquest of England in 1066).

• Black Knight at the Internet Movie Database
• 20th Century Fox's official Black Knight site
• Yahoo! Movies