Did Cambod REALLY strike someone over Shakespeare?

[MoodyMac]

I've always wondered why Hollywood doesn't do Xenophon's Anabasis. There's a lot of room in that story for embellishment and creative license.

Another good story that Hollywood could do well is Macabees. If you don't know the story, think Hebrew William Tell fighting the wicked Greeks, minus the cross bow and apple. They end up liberating Jerusalem and signing a treaty with the Romans......dun dun dun.

Actually, now I'm thinking about Troy, Alexander and Clash of the Titans......perhaps the Brits better make the films instead.

[MoodyMac]

One more. Another great story is Nibelungenlied. Excellent setting for an epic movie. The Franks and the Goths, the Roman Empire crumbling, and Attila coming in from the east. Could easily make a trilogy by adapting the stories of Sigurd and Fafnir to fit seamlessly into the narrative.

Those were the days when one man could slay one hundred men before lunch.

[kinard]

Perhaps the makers of 'Gladiator' were after the ' epic ' feel as per 'Ben Hur' or 'Sparticus'(1950) and therefore not required to be historically accurate to a high degree, instead focusing more on the extravaganza of it all.

Have got the novel 'Attila' by William Napier (2005) staring at me as well..Born the same day as Attila, Aetius "..the last Roman" was to be Attila's nemesis...haven't read it yet so can not recommend as such but fits in with your 5th Century angle and being the first in the 'Attila The Hun' trilogy.

[MoodyMac]

Let me know when you finish it and I'll do you a book swap if you're keen.

[Jacked Camry]

Another good story that Hollywood could do well is Macabees. If you don't know the story, think Hebrew William Tell fighting the wicked Greeks, minus the cross bow and apple. They end up liberating Jerusalem and signing a treaty with the Romans......dun dun dun.

I believe Mel Gibson, of all people, wished to do a movie about the Maccabees. Not surprisingly, this was not met with a great deal of enthusiasm by the Jewish community...

[MoodyMac]

Another good story that Hollywood could do well is Macabees. If you don't know the story, think Hebrew William Tell fighting the wicked Greeks, minus the cross bow and apple. They end up liberating Jerusalem and signing a treaty with the Romans......dun dun dun.

I believe Mel Gibson, of all people, wished to do a movie about the Maccabees. Not surprisingly, this was not met with a great deal of enthusiasm by the Jewish community...

I'd watch it. As long as he was acting as the dad. He's getting a bit long in the tooth to be playing one of the brothers.

[kinard]

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Let me know when you finish it and I'll do you a book swap if you're keen.

As long as it is not 'The Adventures of Sigurd and Fafnir.'

[Jacked Camry]

Another good story that Hollywood could do well is Macabees. If you don't know the story, think Hebrew William Tell fighting the wicked Greeks, minus the cross bow and apple. They end up liberating Jerusalem and signing a treaty with the Romans......dun dun dun.

I believe Mel Gibson, of all people, wished to do a movie about the Maccabees. Not surprisingly, this was not met with a great deal of enthusiasm by the Jewish community...

I'd watch it. As long as he was acting as the dad. He's getting a bit long in the tooth to be playing one of the brothers.

I don't think I'd like to see what that idiot would do to the story. He's got a lot of issues, why not get someone else who doesn't to do it instead?

[MoodyMac]

I don't know what going on in Mel's life these days. Last time I saw him, he was driving a bus naked on South Park. Then he got in some trouble for being foul mouthed to his ex trophy wife.

The films that come to mind when I think of Mad Mel are Mad Max 1 &2, Gallipoli, The Bounty, Braveheart, The Patriot, The Passion, and Apocalypto. I saw another one recently where his grown daughter vomits on him then gets blown away by a hit man on his front door step. Never seen the Lethal Weapon series.

Now JC, if you had seen your wife and child killed by bikers, had most of your mates gunned down by the Turks, founded a colony of inbreeders in the South Pacific, been hung, drawn and quartered, had two sons killed by red coats, filmed the devil in Gethsemane, and been vomited over by your adult daughter you might have a few issues as well.

Cut to.....

60 year old Mel Gibson as a youthful Judas Macabees picking flowers for his sweetheart who awaits him in a glade of cypress trees. She screams as she is carried away by some greasy, pork munching Greek hoplites. Mel spins in slow motion, the flowers scatter in the sky, she screams again, and Mel(s body double) sprints, in a beautifully filmed sequence, through the cypress trees before leaping off a rock and killing three hoplites with the jawbone of an ass and skewering two more with a fallen spear. The last hoplite makes to run, and Mel throws the spear 20 metres (the other two Greeks still impaled) and pins all 3 against a tree. He turns and gives his sweetheart a cheeky grin that slowly turns to grief as he realises she has been decapitated.