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Warner Bros. to set sail with ODYSSEUS, wouldn't it be cool if it starred Sean Bean?
Hey folks, Harry here... Our friends at Variety alert us to the fact that apparently Warner Bros is going to be giving us yet another journey back in time with the Greeks, this time following the story of ODYSSEUS, whose journeys became the basis for Homer's ODYSSEY.
This project was kicked off with a spec script by Ann Peacock's script. She was one of those responsible for THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE. The script found its way to Gianni Nunnari, the producer on 300 - and they've employed Jonathan Liebesman, the man behind the TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING.
Personally - a high quality straight ODYSSEUS movie would be fantastic if done right. Even when radically reworked it can be fantastic as the Coens showed us with O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? I'd be very curious to see what Peacock has done with Odysseus' life. As it is, it seems that this film is a bit in the future as its director is still working on BATTLE: LOS ANGELES for Columbia. Unless ODYSSEUS shoots first. Let's see how this plays out.
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Too soon?
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I laughed....so not too soon.
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why? oh yeh he was Odysseus in that bad "Troy" movie, thats right.
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I'm kidding of course. Yes, Sean Bean would be perfect.
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A V A T A R.December.Nothing else matters.
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I remember seeing that - the episodic nature of The Odyssey suited the TVM format well. He seems to have found his niche in TVMs - I thought his John Gotti was very good as well
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I've loved the Odyssey ever since we had to read it at school. I know Hollywood will completly change the plot, but as long as we get to see Scylla and Charybdis, I'm there.
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would be awesome. He was one of the best things about Troy (which I actually quite enjoyed)
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He was good as Gotti too, even looks like the guy. The Odyssey for TV was great, especially since it left in the gods and mythical creatures - something Troy failed to do, although Brian Cox was pretty good chewing scenery.
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I second (or third) the kudos for THE ODYSSEY tv movie.
They had the long running time to do the story justice. Decent effects (for a TV movie at least). It didn't skimp on the gore or action. AND it featured Eric Roberts as a lecherous suitor trying to move in on Odysseus's wife. An enjoyable watch. -
I know TROY was hardly a classic but TROY DIRECTOR'S CUT is actually a fair improvement.
If you halfway enjoyed the theatrical cut then i'd say it's worth a look. It adds a fair bit of extra gore and violence to the battle scenes, a little more nudity too, and also fleshes out a couple of the characters better. -
What I'd really like to see is a Gilgamesh movie. It may be the oldest story in the world, but it still reads pretty cool today, especially in the sex scene department; we're a bunch of prudish Limeys compared to how horny and openly sexual we were back then.
And I did a little cameo in that TV version of the Odyssey with Greta Scacchi- they covered my pale ass in oil to make me look Greek, and I did a couple of scenes juggling. I reckon I got a good 50 seconds screen time. -
..but I don't think he is right for Odysseus. Sean Bean seems to shine when playing characters that are very believable and with very human weaknesses. But Odysseus is a greek hero - he is larger than life! He is immensely gifted but arrogant and through his many trials and setbacks over the years he learns humility and becomes a whole and wise person - truly fit to be a king.Sort of like Morrissey but with sandals. And a boat. The boat is important.
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Apr 27, 2009 3:48:58 AM CDT
Such a crap group of people involved. Also 300'ize it they will.
by damien chowder
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Thanks to your grammer I read your headline in a Yoda voice. A new keyboard owe me you do
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Yawn.
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Who cares? AICN has jumped the shark and take donw Script Girl already Harry!!
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several days ago, that this will only focus on Odysseus returning home and kicking the suitors' arses. Except now the suitors are apparently an entire country. Or something.
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you *know* it's gonna happen
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Far be it from me, a total amateur, to criticise a professional like yourself but you sound like die-hard Metallica fan after they brought out the black album. The only difference is that they/we didn't start going to Metallica concerts just to call the band a bunch of dicks. Infact as long as they opened with Battery we just enjoyed the show as usual
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Apr 27, 2009 4:19:58 AM CDT
a high quality straight ODYSSEUS movie would be a bore
by cant_stop_yawning
The story is known to everyone and has been for a long time. Once again, Hollywood out of ideas and Harry kissing the asses of any and all studios...
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They have been trying to make him a full fledged leading man for decades now and it doesn't work because he's cranky and wooden in everything he does. His best movie was Stormy Monday (yes, including those retarded hobbit movies, nerds) and that was forever ago.
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so enough of this 'fantastic radical approach' blabla crap
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You know it makes sense...
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Ed Norton. Odysseus is all brain...
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The Warriors. I know everyone says it is based on Anabasis, and you can see the influence of that on the novel. But the movie is pure Odyssey.
Just change the Turnbull AC’s into the cyclops; the Lizzies are the Sirens; the female cop on the bench played by Mercedes Reuhl is Circe (one turns you into a pig; the other summons and has you arrested by “pigs”); the journey throug the subway tunnel is the journey through the Underworld; the Punks are Scylla; and the fight with the Rgoues is the counterpart ot the battle with the suitors in Ithaca. Plus you can add Odysseus’ rivalry with Ajax in the Illiad with Swan’s rivalry with Ajax in the Warriors and you got another connection between the Warriors and Odysseus.
Warriors: Group of Warriors far from home have to travel back home and face a bunch of difficulties after angering the gods. Odesseus: Group of greek warriors are far from home and have to travel back to Greec -
I went to your site and I was quite suprised I liked it actually I liked it alot. But gd I fucking hate you your an asshole and you represent the worst of this site . Good day sir
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WB show that they are currently the only big studio prepared to take a chance on something new. What's the betting Fox will be thinking of a way to dick them again?
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The Coens freely admitted they'd never read The Odyssey and if you were fooled into thinking the movie was really a radical reworking you obviously didn't read it either. Basically the only thing it has in common is it features a guy with one eye.
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Breath easy, my man. Not sure I can agree with this being something new though - as The Odyssey is over 3,000 years old by most estimates.
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We don't need a real-world reason for everything. We want Scylla, Cyclops, the Underworld etc.
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The scene with the suitors is one of the greatest scenes of ultra-violence ever featured in canonical literature. Great stuff. I would love to see a straight forward reworking.
I also agree with everyone who says Oh Brother should not be considered an adaptation, more like a running gag. There are pieces of the epic that the Coens heard of and then pieced together. Still a great film, though. -
Oh, Sean Bean. Harry, have you been reading my secret diary? I said to a friend after we saw Troy (part great, part bad) that I'd love to see Sean Bean play Odysseus in a film adaptation of the Odyssey. He was perfect for the part in Troy, that perfect mix of hero and trickster. "I may be the last to arrive, but I'll always be here at the end", followed by Bean's trademark roguish grin captured Odysseus perfectly.
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fucking a beautiful goddess to attempt to go home to a nagging, aging wife. Really dumb.Seriously, though, wHollyweird is too scared of the fantastical for this to work -- recall the generic movies in the wake of LOTR, such as Troy, King Arthur, and Tristan & Isolde, which were stripped of magic and wonder. I suspect they'll try to make a "realistic" version of The Odyssey.Oh, and wasn't The Road Warrior somewhat like The Iliad?
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HELLO, new live action film announced??? We haven't heard anything about it here on AICN. What gives? As for Odysseus, I wish Sean Bean would be given the role, about I doubt the studio will do it. We'll get some retard hot up and coming actor to take the role, most likely.
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Apr 27, 2009 5:55:09 AM CDT
Lost -- Desmond and Penny/Odysseus and Penelope
by hardboiled wonderland
I mentioned a while ago (and Cuse/Lindelof have never, ever responded *shakes fist*) that the Desmond/Penny story arc could be based on Odysseus and Penelope.
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Apr 27, 2009 6:11:39 AM CDT
Would be great with Bean. Clash of the Titans gets me more
by mr nicholas
excited though.
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http://www.misterpoll.com/poll s/431436 To see if Harry should step down from this site.
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if you can count it as that, is Preston Sturges Sullivan's Travels, which is what O Brother Where Art Thou? really is an adaptation of.
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www.misterpoll.com/polls/431550 I voted 'no' by the way
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He would be excellent.
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Rowan Atkinson? Now, that I would watch.
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Apr 27, 2009 7:12:21 AM CDT
I loved THE ODYSSEY story, the made for tv movie was alright...
by mike_d
I'll give this a chance.
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I like Sean Bean too, but he ain't getting the lead in some $150 million movie unless they want to debut it at West Coast Video.
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come on, the producer of 300, the director of TCM: The Beginning, the writer of Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe! Getting Sean Bean could only complete the mediocrity. Surely no hope for these one with these people involved.
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The problems with that film do not fall with the script. The problem is the director chose to make a world that looked too shiny and too clean, as if no one actually lived in Narnia. There are even more problems with the sequel. However, I will give the script credit for keeping the story based in WWII England.
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...seriously...whose dumb ass idea was it to keep that? That's like having the Easter Bunny show up in the middle of Lord of the Rings.
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any Santa that gives out weapons is badass. Also, he had on normal clothes, not the red and white fluffy suit. Plus as you alluded to he was in the book. Okay I suppose they could have had Aslan give them the weapons, but I rather enjoyed them keeping Father Christmas in the film.
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Make it so!
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Sadly, this is going to feature wall-to-wall anachronistic dialogue and the hero will have to be rescued by a nonexistent in the story female lead over and over. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.
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...I remember he came into my room one night. He wasn't in costume but who else could it be?'Is that you Santa?' I asked all wide eyed and innocent. 'Er, yeah, sure' he said 'and I've got a little present for you as well....'
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He's really good.
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I haven't noticed an unreasonable hatred for Sean Bean here - he has a lot of geek cred thanks to his turns as 006 and Boromir. Also we shouldn't forget he gave a VERY fuckin' professional performance against BALE in Equilibrium. The worst thing you could say about him is that he was terrible in Essex Boys but then again you cannot polish a turd. And he gets more tail than most so it is probably jealousy on the haters part
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..I'm big boned :-) Misanthrope though - guilty as charged
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and she LOVES Sean Bean.
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So I'm torn.
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A misanthropic Vicar - now that would be funny
'I would offer you the lords salvation and eternal life but you are all a bunch of tossers so get fucked'I'm sure I wouldn't fall asleep in THAT sermon! -
Bean was the best thing in Troy- the movie itself was so...average. Apparently Bean's presence was much bigger in another, longer cut of the film, which also was more violent and darker. Has anyone heard this as well, or even seen this version? Any plans to release it on DVD? I mean the theatrical cut of Kingdom of Heaven was flawed, the director's cut- brilliant!
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Because Sean Bean is cool in anything he does. He was the best part of Troy and Boromir was my favorite character of LOTR movies. He also made Equilibrium watchable.
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Rocko - the longer cut of TROY is available on Blu Ray see my post higher up. It's certainly not KOH good, but it does improve the film.
Regarding Santa giving out weapons in LION, WITCH AND WARDROBE. I remember there was some female reporter who wrote an inflamed piece about how militaristic the movie was and how it was corrupting young minds, etc.
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is that it will associate this film with Troy, which was an utter disappointment. My hope is that they do not try and take magic out of this film like they did with similar fantasy epics. Hollywood is obsessed with telling the "real" story when the mythical tells us more than the "historical."
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EQUILIBRIUM is a film entirely about professionalism.
Bale's professionalism.
At the start of the film he is actually TOO professional.
He needs to gain Equilibrium by becoming slightly more amateur (hence the title).
Only after letting his 'inner amateur' out he is ready to become a 'true professional'.
This he achieves at the end of the film. Becoming so utterly professional that instead of having a five minute duel with his rival he kills him with a single stroke.
Never has one film, nor one actor been more devoted to professionalism.
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One last thing about TROY and 300.
Achilles right-hand man the 'Captain' is the exact same actor who played Leonidas' right-hand man - also called the 'Captain'.
It's like the shaggy-haired fucker just walked off one film set straight to another. -
But the list of people who will be given a $150 million movie to star in is not very long. And he isn't on it, or the $75 million one under it, or the $50 million one under that.
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...is the only thing i've seen Bean perform well in. Totally believable, scummy and menacing. Everything else ...miscast and wooden.
As for ODYSSEUS ...
No yanks need apply. Give it to Butler (so what if he's done 300, how many great westerns did Clint do)or Ray Stevenson.
Cheers!
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Apr 27, 2009 10:55:01 AM CDT
TROY was very good. I hope ODYSSEUS is just as good.
by leafar the lost
I don't get the TROY hate. That was a very good movie. Both Brad Pitt and Eric Bana were great in that movie.If they do an ODYSSEUS movie, I hope that Wolfgang Peterson directs/produces it and David Benioff writes the screenplay. Fuck all of you TROY haters. "HECTOR! HECTOR! HECTOR!"
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how did i miss that one. classic!
i hear he's up for the lead in the new Bird's Eye movie as well.
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In this one, let's see how a young Scylla first hooked up with Charybdis.
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And he's value for money as the SAS faker in RONIN. I say give the man a shot at this. The recent RED RIDING stuff he did in the UK was awesome, and proves that he can be excellent given the right material. I agree, though, sometimes he's poorly cast (THE HITCHER?).
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Omg I am so excited about this.
As a child my dad would tell me the story of the cyclops Polythermus (sp) who Odysseus blinded on his way home from Troy, when I became 12 I got The Odyssey out from the library (the edited version which is easier to read) and it became my favourite novel. So many cool adventures.
When I started University at 21, I found a copy of the Odyssey and the Iliad in the library and read the full novel for the first time.
Now I am 28 I bought both novels from a book shop just four weeks ago, and now this movie has been announced.
It's almost as if my whole life has been building towards the movie's release date! I pray to Zeus that it doesn't suck. -
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That show has been begging to get transferred to the big screen.
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The mini series ruled all! But then I'll always prefer a mini series adaptation to a movie adaptation. It may not have the budget, but it has the time to tell the story right.
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I agree, i think he would be perfect. The Lord of the Rings were my favorite books as a child and now as an adult. I enjoyed PJ's rendition of the films, although like most of us there were areas were PJ missed the mark. Why didn't Gandalf's sword glow?! Anyways, i digress. Bean's performance of Boromir blew me away, especially his death scene! It was was of the few instances where the film surpassed the writings of Tolkien. I would gladly pay $20 to see a big budget film where Sean can finally flex his leading muscles!
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He was one of the best things about Troy. A big screen Odysseus would own all, as long as the following people don't direct:In no particular orderSteven Sommers
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Make it happen.
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It would indeed be cool if it starred Sean Bean. The director's cut of Troy was pretty good.
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THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY are epic poems attributed to the legendary blind Greek poet Homer, about whom we know almost nothing. If you got hold of versions that looked like novels to you, they were prose retellings of the storyline, not the real thing. Both are indeed great stories, but the real thing is also chock full of great poetry (depending on whose translation you're reading)
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You know why? It added more scenes with Sean Bean as Odysseus.
THAT is why bringing Sean Bean back to be Odysseus is a great idea. -
He's got the proper combination of presence, intelligence, and toughness that is perfect for the Greek legend.
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and more Hornblower for that matter...
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He really is lower than b-list now. Here in the UK he does the voice over for no less than three ads. One of them is a Supermarket. He's not leading-man material and plays the same freaking character in everything: over-emote man.
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He would be perfect.
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I have no idea why anyone would want to see this movie be made. It will be bad and nothing will change my opinion on the subject. I really hope Hollywood crumbles to the ground and at which point REAL FILMMAKERS can take over.
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...considering you ripped me for being boring by stating that this site sucks when they were covering the porn star who died. I think you told me that you didnt give a fuck what I had to say because it had been stated a thousand times before. Also you said you're main reason for being here was pointing out how hypocritical people are, so i hope you can see how hypocritical you've know managed to become in maybe 3 weeks time. And also I think a better choice for Odysseus would be Mr Bean.
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danny glovers dickblood. It looks like he has two _ between the names. Also he doesn't seem very sensational so i apologize to the original recipe himself.
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Fuck history. He could've kicked Brad Pitt's hairless ass.
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Two __ = fake as fuck.
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I don't want a "realistic" approach to something that didn't happen, like troy...
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was the SCORE. PURE SHITE.
But then again the script, the editing, the special effects and the directing pretty much sucked - except the duelling scenes. What was particularly good about those scenes? NO SHITE MUSIC! -
Who else could pull off the intensity , other than the people's champion? Sean bean? Bah!
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but zombie James Joyces says, "It's unfilmable!!!"
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DON'T CARE HOW YOU DO IT JUST DO IT
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Love him. He's not humorless. No one ever hires him to be funny, that's all. He just looks so damn good when he's being a badass. Mmmm.... You guys should check out the Sharpe series if you haven't seen them.
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And why should Harry quit? What a fucking dolt.
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I mean come on.
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...buried in TROY'S runtime. Yeah, I know the tempation to show EVERYTHING concerning the invasion of Troy. In Peterson's highly flawed, and surprisingly dull, movie there was a great story, with some well choreographed fight scenes, buried there about the conflict between Hector and Achilles.
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Ray Harryhausen is needed.
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Has there ever been a story done and re-done as many times as this has?! For fucks sake, Hollywood!
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would be a better choice. Have you seen the old Ulysses movie with Kirk Douglas? It was pretty cool for the time.
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Apr 29, 2009 1:26:39 AM CDT
Jackman could do it, but he should do some smaller movies
by juansanchez
Big productions can wear you down and over-saturate the market with your mug.
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...oh wait, they did that with Troy didn't they? And we all saw how great that was, right, kids?
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What was the name of the gay porn re-work of 300?
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Really God-awful. Not a cyclops or a siren in sight. Really sad...
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a probably better one.
There's been a script with the same premise for some years now, that gained the interest of several name people, like David Cronemberg, Stephen Frears and Denzel Washington. But Nunnari still glows of the success of 300, so it must have been easy for him to sell the project with a lesser director atached. -
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