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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