I've always loved the The 13th Warrior. I can remember seeing the trailer for this when I was in high school and thinking just the visuals alone, seeing Arabs and Vikings together, was so cool. Though the film is by no means perfect and suffered from a troubled production, it has some wonderful things going for it including John McTiernan's direction, Jerry Goldsmith's amazing score, and Wolf Kroeger's set design. With all that said, I felt like the final film that was released really suffered from reshoots, especially those done by Michael Crichton, which in my opinion stick out like a sore thumb. So with this edit, I really wanted to focus on removing most of those scenes.