This semi-remake was shot with the same title, but Warner changed "Killer" to "Slayer" in an apparent effort to make this expensive film more palatable to families.
While the beanstalk yarn has typically been adapted as cartoon shorts or for television or video, the more action-oriented legend did become a medium-sized live-action adventure with stop-motion effects in 1962's Jack the Giant Killer. In fact, Jack the Giant Slayer draws from both that children's tale and an Arthurian variation a hundred years older. Pictures and New Line Cinema, the studios most seasoned in blockbuster contemporary fantasy, the 19th century fairy tale was a viable foundation for a $200 million tentpole.
To some, the story of Jack and the Beanstalk may have seemed nearly as preposterous for big budget action spectacle treatment as the board game Battleship.
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