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Hawk the Slayer is a 1980 British sword and sorcery adventure film directed by Terry Marcel and starring John Terry and Jack Palance. The film has developed a cult following. Sequels were planned, but never produced. Terry Marcel had been working with Harry Robertson when they realized that they both were sword and sorcery fans. Inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars, the result was an English version of the story set in the Dark Ages and thus Hawk the Slayer was born. Marcel has stated that the film was not originally intended to include magic at all, and was supposed to be a historical film. In the course of writing the script, he then introduced the magical mind stone, changing the nature of the film.