You've been living with Grendel for a long time.Tell me about your relationship to the book. It was taught to us in high school and I just was fascinated with it because we read all sorts of books ...

The book always fascinated him, he said, "because we read all sorts of books [in high school] To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye and Death Be Not Proud and they all stirred conversation ...

With a starry cast including Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston and Dave Bautista, writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski is counting on old-school movie magic from The Jim Henson Co. to turn Beowulf’s ...