The Warriors

Live-Action Film Fandom
Name:	The Warriors
Director:	Walter Hill
Production companies:	Paramount Pictures
Release date:	1979
Genre:	action, thriller, crime
Country:	United States
External links:	at IMDb at Wikipedia
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The Warriors is a 1979 film with a cult following.

Fandom Overview

The film has a very small presence in transformative fandom, on sites like FanFiction.Net, where the film's filter is "Warriors" with no additional context except being in the Movies section, the filter is often confused for Warrior Cats and filled with unrelated content; but is somewhat popular among film fans, with certain iconic scenes having been referenced in canons like The Simpsons. The film, which remains the most-known form of the story, is based on a 1965 novel by Sol Yurick. Tie-in comic books and a video game by Rockstar Games have expanded on the material presented in the film.

In 2016, a TV series by the Russo brothers was said to be in development. In 2018 it was reported that the series had moved to Netflix, with little news reported since.

Critical Reception and Fanbase

The Warriors Movie Site, run by Gareth Jones, hosts a large forum and posts updates on Warriors events, products, scholarship, and other work by the film's actors. In 2017, TWMS sponsored The Warriors UK Conclave, the first Warriors con in the UK.

Warriors cons are often called "Conclaves", in a reference to the massive gathering of different gangs that takes place in the film.

Conventions

• The Warriors Festival

Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

• The Ajax Series, a partially-completed series of fills for 50 Scenes by suckmyspock

Archives, Communities & Resources

• The Warriors Movie Site, a fansite with forums, information about the movie's production, and information about official tie-in material
• Warriors on FanFiction.Net
• The Warriors (1979) on AO3
• the warriors 1979 tag on Tumblr