Hannibal Movie

[dragonchr15]

I heard that a major motion picture about Hannibal is coming out next year and Vin Diesel is supposed to play the title role. Has anyone else heard this?

[scooter_the_shooter]

yes it is true i think its called hanibal the conqueror

[Beelzebub]

Yay, first hollywood pisses all over the iliad, now hannibal.

[USMCNJ]

oh, it's going to piss all over Alexander the Great (november) before it pisses over Hannibal

[Maedhros]

I believe it will will piss all over Alexander twice.

Colin Farrel - I can't picture him as "The Great" he doesn't come across as inteligent or philosophical.

and again with Titanic boy, what's his name....

Need I say more?

[Dead Moroz]

Vin Diesel is... Hannibal? Aaaaaaaaaaa total madness http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-dizzy2.gif

[Omegamann]

Quote[/b] (Maedhros @ July 12 2004,22:38)]I believe it will will piss all over Alexander twice.

Colin Farrel - I can't picture him as "The Great" he doesn't come across as inteligent or philosophical.

and again with Titanic boy, what's his name....

Need I say more?

not twice anymore
Alexander News (http://www.empiremovies.com/news.php?id=219)

Surely Alexander was a gifted, ambitious and driven General, but he surely was neither highly intelligent or very philosophical.
Macedon was also considerd to be culturaly inferior to most of the Greek City States.
And I dont think Diesel would be a bad choice as Hannibal, as Hannibal was also more of a Soldiers General having grown up on campaign and having spent only little time in the luxurys of Carhago.
About Hannibal there are also other projects on Hannibal in the Pipeline
Hannibal Preview (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808501904&intl=us)
But I would only believe that a film is comming when the first shots are published (see Alexander)

Basicaly Crow announced plans for Gates of Fire (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1808404115&intl=us) shortly after Gladiator and it might just be that an adaption of Frank Millers great comic "300 (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/5149.html)" will beat him to the cinemas (Frank Miller seems to be the latest find in the movie industrie (see also Sin City and the next Batman)

[Catiline]

The Alexander shots actually look very good from a historical point of view. They blow gladiator out of the water.

[Rosacrux]

Yes, I've seen Alex's pictures and to be frank and honest, they - albeit not excactly absolutely faithful to what we know of Macedonian warfare - ain't nothing close to despicable http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-dizzy2.gif

Well, if you haven't figured what I am saying, it's that they have got several thingies right... quite right Save the platin blond hair ("blond" for Greeks at this time was a shade of moderately fair brown...) and some armour and weaponry details, they got it right

I don't have the same faith in the recreation of the battles, but I hope it won't be too bad (like you-know-what http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-curtain.gif )

[shingenmitch2]

There are 4 ancient history movies slated in the next two years that I know of.

2 Hannibles:

1 starring Vin Deisel (not proven a great actor yet)

1 starring Denzel Washingtion (a great actor, but an Afro-centric view of Hannible) SInce Carthaginians were Phoenecian/Canaanite transplants and their aristocracy fully Semetic, Denzel is going to be distracting. Could Napoleon be played by a Japanese person? John Wayne doing Gengis Khan was ridiculous.

2 Alexanders:

1 directed by Oliver Stone, due out this fall. The costumes look absolutely fantastic. My only concern is Stone's penchant for throwing some sort of liberal political spin into every movie or having some sort of "new" alterntative (i.e. crack-pot) theory of things.

1 that has been put on hold because of the timing of Stone's movie. It is slated to have a much bigger budget and rumors are that Ridley Scott or Mel Gibson might direct it.

[scooter_the_shooter]

NO not gibson http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif

[Hurin_Rules]

Quote[/b] (Omegamann @ July 13 2004,06:36)]Surely Alexander was a gifted, ambitious and driven General, but he surely was neither highly intelligent or very philosophical.
Macedon was also considerd to be culturaly inferior to most of the Greek City States.
Macedon itself was not considered culturally sophisticated, but as tutor to his young son Alexander, Philip did commission perhaps history's greatest scholar: Aristotle.

[Longshanks]

Quote[/b] (ceasar010 @ July 13 2004,08:22)]NO not gibson http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif
The original rumors also had Denzel Washington playing Hannibal in that film. (the Oliver Stone version)

Great actor, but just as poor casting as in the case of Vin Diesel. (unless he's going to be in make up) Hannibal was Phoenician in ancestry, so the real Hannibal would have been several shades lighter than Denzel and middle-eastern in appearance. But why not...we had Nordic looking Greeks in Troy. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

I suddenly have an urge to watch The Conquerer, staring John Wayne as Genghis Khan. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-wall.gif

[scooter_the_shooter]

i dodnty like brave heart not because of the inacuracy i found it boring i liked king arthur the new one better

[hundurinn]

Quote[/b] ]Macedon itself was not considered culturally sophisticated, but as tutor to his young son Alexander, Philip did commission perhaps history's greatest scholar: Aristotle.

Alexander loved the Greek culture but even at the high point of his empire the Greek City States still looked at Macedonia as barbarians. He was very intelligent (at least in my opinion), Aristotle thought him and his fellow students everything he knew. How to look at a prolem from different sides and thus try to have the best solution. That for example was one of his greates vices&virtues.