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Posted By: Maejai Jun 26, 2003 - 11:52 am

Much more sword than sorcery I realise, but i have heard that a "Gladiator-style" Hollywood blockbuster about the life of Alexander is in production. Does anyone know anything about this? Cast? Release dates etc?..
Because, I suppose, of the barbarism and mystery of ancient times, I find reading about Alexander and other heroes of antiquity as absorbing as a good Conan tale. So, for anyone who enjoyed Braveheart it should be a cracking movie (as long as they don't cast Tom Cruise in the lead role!)

Posted By: ka_el_ma Jun 26, 2003 - 03:19 pm

I've been surfing the web for info on Daredevil in anticipation of it coming out on DVD July 29, and have seen several messages saying that Colin has been signed to play Alexander the Great.

Just checked IMDB and they say the same thing.

I too am hopeful this will be a good movie -- it certainly has a lot of potential.

Posted By: Dark Knight Jun 27, 2003 - 02:35 pm

News: Alexander: With production delayed a year and Oliver Stone's rival version not far off from shooting, speculation began to grow that Universal was going to quietly bury their Baz Luhrmann helmed "Alexander the Great" epic but not so. In fact The Herald Sun reports that Luhrmann and producer Dino De Laurentiis meet with Prime Minister John Howard and Premier Bob Carr this week in order to try and garner military support to shoot the $US100 million epic around both Sydney's Fox Studios and the desert locations in and around the Broken Hill region in western New South Wales. Despite offers from China, Romania and Canada to film there, Luhrmann is keen to shoot in his home country but the trick is he needs around "500 troops capable of carrying out Alexander's military manoeuvres for two months". A big demand, though only around a tenth of the manpower that was offered to him by King Mohammed VI when filming was originally slated for Morocco. Luhrmann is also not settling on plain old extras either - "It's not about a bunch of extras standing there holding a spear. It's precise military manoeuvres. It's about the ability to go out into the desert and bivouac down then get up in the morning and shoot. We really need a crack cavalry. If we could get 300 crack cavalry, we'd be cool. With CG [computer-generated images], you don't need big numbers but you need great talents". The PM told the pair that he "gave his commitment to look into it [and] to do what he could", but without military support the director seems resigned to then moving the shoot to China - "If we knew we had these 200 troops tomorrow, it's a done thing - without it, we're gone, we can't really do it. This isn't just a 'gee, wouldn't it be nice', this is technical reality".

from http://www.darkhorizons.com/news.htm

Posted By: Dark Knight Jun 27, 2003 - 02:38 pm

Two? Thats right there is TWO visions, so which one are you all talking about..???...

Posted By: jcbnfulks Jun 27, 2003 - 04:00 pm

the guy who wrote 'the way of the gun' and 'usual suspects' is co-writing it.