Hannibal in movies ?

[caesar44]

Is there any movie about Hannibal ? Did not find any .
Such a great story and Hollywood ignored it for decades , why ? Because he was not blonde ?
Or maybe there a movie about this great Semitic figure ?

[Incongruous]

Vin Diesel's version is coming out soon.

Thats right, the guy who brought like fifteen hundred tanks into Italy.
"Hannibal, what are we to do, the Romans are too many?
"Bring on the Hydrogen bomb!"

That's right its crammpacked with thin scripting, over done plot, non-existent acting and plenty of new age all American punch lines and Hannibals most famous saying "Yippy Key Yey Incompatible language"

Rated MR materialy retarted.

Still I'm not one to bash a movie before I've seen it.

[caesar44]

[AggonyDuck]

Well I've seen three movies with Hannibal in it.
The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon....What a charming fella that Hannibal was.

[lars573]

Is there any movie about Hannibal ? Did not find any .
Such a great story and Hollywood ignored it for decades , why ? Because he was not blonde ?
Or maybe there a movie about this great Semitic figure ?

So you mean a movie about Hannibal Barca made in the last 40 odd years? Vin Diesel's version will be the first Hollywood and in english version of Hannibals story. There are 2 Italian versions, the first made by Mussolini's fascists in 1937 titled Scipione l'africano. And another Italian production from 1960 called Annibale.

[Meneldil]

There's going to be a Hannibal with vin Diesel ? We're doomed.

[lars573]

There's going to be a Hannibal with vin Diesel ? We're doomed.

It's worse than that it's not with Vin Diesel it's by Vin Diesel. He's going to (if it gets made) direct and star in it.

[Rodion Romanovich]

It's worse than that it's not with Vin Diesel it's by Vin Diesel. He's going to (if it gets made) direct and star in it.

Hopefully he'll play the roman commander in the battle of Trebia, then we get rid of him quickly unless they neglect historical accuracy more than usual

[lars573]

Hopefully he'll play the roman commander in the battle of Trebia, then we get rid of him quickly unless they neglect historical accuracy more than usual

You should be so lucky he's going to play Hannibal, but you assumed that any way didn't you.

[Geoffrey S]

I don't know; I can't really picture him as Hannibal, but he's got a decent track record. Certainly charismatic, as shown in Pitch Black. And remember people ridiculed his game Chronicles of Riddick when it was announced, and look how that turned out.
Stay openminded. Should be interesting at the very least.

[GoreBag]

I liked Pitch Black, but I never saw any of the others in the series. In any case, Diesel's too damn short to be an ancient-world general.

[Reverend Joe]

I liked Pitch Black, but I never saw any of the others in the series. In any case, Diesel's too damn short to be an ancient-world general.

Too... short? You do know they were all a lot shorter than us... right? And the generals weren't all tall aryan types...

[Steppe Merc]

Agreed. Vin Diesel is a horrible choice, but it has nothing to do with his height. It has everything to do with the fact he's Vin Diesel...

[caesar44]

So you mean a movie about Hannibal Barca made in the last 40 odd years? Vin Diesel's version will be the first Hollywood and in english version of Hannibals story. There are 2 Italian versions, the first made by Mussolini's fascists in 1937 titled Scipione l'africano. And another Italian production from 1960 called Annibale.

Did you watch them ? (the 2 Italian versions)

[edyzmedieval]

Vin Diesel equals Cannae for the Romans.

[GoreBag]

Agreed. Vin Diesel is a horrible choice, but it has nothing to do with his height. It has everything to do with the fact he's Vin Diesel...

But really, the guy's really short. It's pathetic.

[Meneldil]

Come on, Vin Diesel is Vin Diesel. As long as that's a proven fact, everything involving Vin Diesel will be totally crappy.

I can already see Hannibal shooting at some innocent Romans with a shotgun, kicking their butt with a 25th century sword and yelling 'outta my way, mother fu***'!'

[caesar44]

Hey , give him a chance...he can talk (saw it) , he can walk (saw it) , he can run (saw it) , he can drive (a horse??) and he can cross (the Alps??) .
Now , he and Hannibal have some thing in common - they both know how to win battles...

[Moros]

I don't think they'd go that far
but I think the Cartagenians would probably have 100's of elephants and the romans might be Imperial legionnairs or something. And it wouldn't suprise me if there's flying an aeroplane trough the sky again. (Troy anyone?)

[caesar44]

Let us continue this , Holywoodian style - Hannibal before Canae - "I have got to kill all these Romans , I promised it to my father..." Varro - "Send the Imperial Legions and the Praetorian Caesarian Cohorts and smash these Lebanese Barbarians that came to our land from Germania" The Roman soldiers - "Heil Caesar !!!"

[lars573]

Did you watch them ? (the 2 Italian versions)

No but I did find a trailer for the 1960 version, but I don't have time to post it now I got to go to work.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Do you guys mean this Vin Diesel?

In 2006, Vin Diesel will star and direct the film 'Hannibal', about Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian General who led an elephant-riding army across the alps to attack Rome in the 3rd century BC. The film is actually footage taken when Vin Diesel led the army himself hundreds of years ago, with the intent of releasing it as a film as soon as Earth technology caught up with his superior, home-made equipment.

[GoreBag]

These are hilarious.

[Reverend Joe]

I wish Lee Marvin was still alive- give him a hair dye, an eye patch, and a beard, and he would make the perfect Hannibal.

[GoreBag]

They should get Jackie Mason to do it, actually.

[Incongruous]

It's going to be like Passion of the Christ with authentic Languages such as Latin, Aramaic and some kind of Celtic diologue. Oh and os course Greek!

[Kraxis]

Come on, Vin Diesel is Vin Diesel. As long as that's a proven fact, everything involving Vin Diesel will be totally crappy.

You are the first guy I know to call 'Saving Private Ryan' crap...
Sure it isn't perfect after the beaches (can you say Rambo-style?), but honestly it is better than just good.

Give the man a chance. He has charisma, he has the looks (if he unbuffs a bit) and he can actually act, though we don't see much of it mostly.
I think any real problems will come from the fact that he want to direct it, and that it will possibly include lots of bad combinations of troops and equipment.

But personally I won't comment on the movie until I see some shots from it. After I see them, I will shoot it down with the rear turret of Yamato! But until then I think people should just be happy that someone might do the movie... As long as it is going to be made then there is a chance it will be good. Hopefully it will be.

[caesar44]

Hannibal-Vin after Cannae - "let us continue to Rome and kill the Pope !"


Please don't do this , please wait for a director...poor Hannibal...

[Meneldil]

You are the first guy I know to call 'Saving Private Ryan' crap...
Sure it isn't perfect after the beaches (can you say Rambo-style?), but honestly it is better than just good.

Well, in Saving Private Ryan, private Caparzo dies after what, maybe 30 or 40 minutes ?, and he barely says one thing during the whole movie. It's not as if he was an important character.

Now, of course, I won't comment aswell, because the movie might be quite good, but I just don't like Vin Diesel.

[Kraxis]

He doesn't say much, that is right, but he is convincing, and he most certainly isn't the usual brute he has been casted for later. It is an indicator that the man can act and not just go around and fight people.

It is a bit like people who don't like Leonardo Di Caprio, but one should ask oneself, did he ever act badly? Or was it the movie itself? He too has suffered from a sort of typecasting.