The Asylum have also jumped in before with various films adapted from classic literary works, including their own low-budget versions of War of the Worlds (2005), King of the Lost World (2005) based on The Lost World (1912), Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), Sherlock Holmes (2009), 3 Musketeers (2011) and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (2017) when the respective big-budget versions of these were made. Zombies (2012), Age of the Hobbits (2012) and Atlantic Rim (2013), among others. The Asylum’s mockbusters have included the likes of The Da Vinci Treasure (2006), Pirates of Treasure Island (2006), Snakes on a Train (2006), I Am Omega (2007), Transmorphers (2007), Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008), The Day the Earth Stopped (2008), Death Racers (2008), 100 Million BC (2008), Sunday School Musical (2008), The 18 Year Old Virgin (2009), Paranormal Entity (2009), The Terminators (2009), Almighty Thor (2011), Battle of Los Angeles (2011), Abraham Lincoln vs. The Asylum is a company that specialises in ‘mockbusters’ – low-budget films that attempt to copy the titles of more successful big-budget studio releases and exploit their free publicity by being released at the same time, not to mention seek to fool unsuspecting browsers into thinking they are watching the other film. There she determines to subjugate the Earth below, with her beasts proving invincible to all military firepower brought against them. When Jack’s girlfriend Lisa Russell plants another beanstalk to come after him, Selina takes the opportunity to travel back down with her beasts. In trying to find a way back down the beanstalk, Newald takes Jack to see the sorceress Selina in search of a solution. Newald believes that only a few days have passed since he came to the land of the clouds and is amazed to see that Jack, who he left as an infant, is now a full-gown adult. He takes refuge at a floating castle and meets its owner – none other than his father Newald Krutchens. Jack is then snatched by the beanstalk’s tendrils and carried up to a strange land in the clouds. Jack throws them away but is startled to later find they have grown into a giant beanstalk that stretches up into the sky. When opened, the package proves to contain beans. Jack Mason is celebrating his eighteenth birthday when he is interrupted by a crazy man who says he was a friend of his Jack’s father and insists on leaving a package for him.
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