Anabasis

[LeftEyeNine]

Wasn't Vin Diesel working on a movie project related to this? I read the news on this very forum in 2008.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1272879/

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I've been meaning to read this. I've read a little bit about it (and listened to a lecture on it) and it sounds like some knock-out awesome stuff.

[LeftEyeNine]

Most of the book is simply amazing to imagine. As obvious I read a Turkish translation but the language is very fluent when the action is present and somewhat epic when speeches take their turn.

[Skullheadhq]

I've read it a year ago, that was the first thing I thought: "Why isn't this a movie?". In the Dutch edition this question was asked in the prologue. It's just so atmospheric: The collective suicide, the Thracian expedition, the incidents at Byzantium, the internal politics of Greece at that time that are mentioned now and then, and most of all, the schemes and power structures after the assasination of the generals. A very good book.

[Jolt]

Because usually script writers grab a perfectly good story and to adapt it to the movie turn it into some horrible story that has little to do with the book and if littler to do with the world.

Just take into consideration that they wanted to make a sequel to the film Gladiator (Great movie, good story-telling, etc) and the writer wrote a story on how Maximus goes into the Roman underworld then tricks the gods into bringing him back alive and gains immortality, proceeding to go through history doing justice (Protecting Christians from the Roman persecutions, fights with Crusaders against the muslims, fighting in the World War 2, fighting Vietcongs in Vietnam, working at the Pentagon, and commanding Mecha-bots into battle.)

...So yeah.

[Skullheadhq]

Just take into consideration that they wanted to make a sequel to the film Gladiator (Great movie, good story-telling, etc) and the writer wrote a story on how Maximus goes into the Roman underworld then tricks the gods into bringing him back alive and gains immortality, proceeding to go through history doing justice (Protecting Christians from the Roman persecutions, fights with Crusaders against the muslims, fighting in the World War 2, fighting Vietcongs in Vietnam, working at the Pentagon, and commanding Mecha-bots into battle.)

...So yeah.

Lolwut? Do you have a link for this story?
And how is fighting with the crusaders 'doing justice'?

[Jolt]

You could argue the same thing for every single situation I mentioned. How is fighting Vietcongs or working at the Pentagon doing justice?

Just search in google for Gladiator sequel script or something to that effect.