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In a world where swashbuckler films have faded into obscurity, two filmmakers embark on a journey to resurrect the genre with a limited budget. This post was written by Reuben Guberek. No conventional

In a world where swashbuckler films have faded into obscurity, two filmmakers embark on a journey to resurrect the genre with a limited budget.

This post was written by Reuben Guberek.

No conventional wisdom pointed my brother and me toward making an ambitious period film in a dead genre. But as lovers of history, comedy, and sword fighting, we knew it was authentic to make our next short film a swashbuckler.

From pirates to musketeers, swashbucklers were one of the major genre outputs of Hollywood until the 1950s, after which they largely disappeared. They are characterized by sword fights and plucky heroes—often rebels who crave revenge or justice rather than treasure or conquest. Ultimately the tone is a light-hearted adventure with a hero we want to root for that is adept with a blade.

Although the genre is largely untouched by Hollywood these days, joining a sold-out crowd of 17,500 people to see The Princess Bride in concert at The Hollywood Bowl in 2021 showed us that audiences might still be interested in this type of lighthearted film.