Let’s be honest, what’s your all-time favorite dragon movie? Is it Dragonslayer? Dragonheart? Q: The Winged Serpent? Maybe it’s an animated feature like How to Train Your Dragon or Raya and the Last Dragon? No matter what your answer is, the unpopular opinion remains, Rob Bowman’s 2002 popcorn flick Reign of Fire is one of the most underrated movies featuring the mythic fire-breathing beasts. Never mind the fact that the flick boasts a lowly 39 Metascore and 42% Rotten Tomatoes score, the grim dystopian world-building, excellent visual effects, and big-d*ck swinging performances from Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale remain a ton of fun to behold. Of course, Reign of Fire had the misfortune of running into the far more potent cinematic behemoth, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which largely overshadowed the movie’s mild commercial success and eventually relegated the film into obscurity at worst, and cult-classic status at best.

To wit, did you know that a sequel to Reign of Fire was a slight possibility at one time? Did you realize there was a video game released in conjunction with the movie in 2002? Are you aware of how influential the visual effects and creative fire-igniting dragon designs have been to such acclaimed and successful projects as Harry Potter and Game of Thrones? Well, we’ve got a lot more interesting factoids about the making of Reign of Fire, including its script development, production difficulties, the inspiration behind the dragon’s fire-breathing physiology, on-set anecdotes and illnesses, and the post-release influence the movie had on other dragon-based movies and TV shows. Yeah, it’s that time to find out What happened to Reign of Fire at long last.

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