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Mel Gibson To Produce 'Boudicca' Film Epic
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| 28 April 2004
| Mark Sage
Posted on 04/28/2004 9:29:31 AM PDT by Hal1950
Flush from the success of The Passion Of The Christ, Mel Gibson is looking back in time once again to produce an epic about Boudicca, who led Britain against Roman conquerors.
Dubbed Braveheart with a bra, the film will chronicle Boudiccas rise from peasant girl to a military leader who united the Celtic tribes of Britain.
Gibsons production company, Icon, appears keen to cash in on further historical tales, after The Passion netted hundreds of millions of pounds at the box office.
The film will be directed by Gavin OConnor who told the Hollywood trade paper Variety: What drew me is that she was driven by personal revenge.
Her goals were never political and never went beyond avenging her slain husband and child.
She managed to bring together all of these warring tribes to stand against the Roman Empire.
It is a masculine story with a female point of view.
Brian Klugman, who co-wrote the script with Lee Sternthal, said: We spent over a year researching Queen Boudicca, Celtic Britain and the Roman Empire, and another year writing the script.
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To: paleocon patriarch
**I hope that someday Mel tackles the story, of Hernan Cortez and the conquest of the Aztec empire.*****
40 years ago Warner Bros' prepared to make a film of Lew Wallace's(BEN HUR) other novel THE FAIR GOD that dealt with that theme. They reprinted the book but the movie was never produced.
To: Hal1950
Wasn't Roman civilization good for early Britain as opposed to a bunch of barbaric blue faced berserkers?
I am reading a old book I bought at Amazon called the Last of the legions by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the Roman garrisons leaving Britain and a year after the place being over run by barbarians.
Roman Britain was prob very interesting and ordered. I think a real civil British gentleman of the past (a dying breed of man) would rather choose the Pax Romana and Cicero over drunk fighting savages pillaging a monastery and killing.
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posted on
04/28/2004 9:56:13 AM PDT
by
mandingo republican
(Baal worshipers I tell ya! They are all Baal worshipers! - FREE HONG KONG, CUBA, IRAN!!!!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I am applying for a job in makeup.
To: Lizavetta
yeap
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posted on
04/28/2004 9:57:27 AM PDT
by
mware
To: Junior
Hmm sounds like the plot to the 1968 movie THE VIKING QUEEN.
To: Defiant
Celtic warriors fought completely nude"Nice spear you got there, soldier."
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posted on
04/28/2004 9:57:57 AM PDT
by
Snardius
To: Hal1950
I've been dying for years to learn something about Boudicca. I can hardly wait for Gibson's film.
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posted on
04/28/2004 9:58:46 AM PDT
by
Agnes Heep
(Solus cum sola non cogitabuntur orare pater noster)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
We were left wondering at different times what happened. Sparticus was trapped by the sea... He did not know what to do... His adversary was ready to crush him... And then you find out in an undramatic way five minutes later that Sparticus escaped over the commercial break, but the movie never showed it. Yeah, but since it was made for television - not a bad effort.
I thought it was sort of an attempt to combine Braveheart and Gladiator. The Roman senator took the role of Longshanks, Sparticus took the role of William Wallace and The Spaniard.
All we needed was Mel Gibson in a supercharged Mustang.
Still, I thought it wasn't too bad.
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:00:30 AM PDT
by
Hacksaw
(theocratic paleoconistic Confederate flag waving loyalty oath supporter)
To: Agnes Heep
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:02:07 AM PDT
by
1066AD
To: Hal1950; Argh; xsmommy; Xenalyte; SeaDragon; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
BRAOFF!
Hips, Hips, Hurry!
(Ooops. I'm sorry.)
Hip, Hip, Hurray! Bravo!)
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:02:09 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly ... But Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS press corpse lies every day.)
To: farmfriend
ping just cuz it's interesting
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:02:17 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I just got through reading an article on this lady in one of the military history magazines I receive each month. I'm certain it said something about avenging the rapes of her two stepdaughters.
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:02:33 AM PDT
by
Junior
(Remember, you are unique, just like everyone else.)
To: Hal1950
Ol' Mel has a serious fetish with hard core violence. mates.
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:03:55 AM PDT
by
gawd
To: Hacksaw
**but they managed to work in some digs at Bush **
I read the Howard Fast novel 40 years ago. (There was no Anthony Curtis character in the book).
Saw the Kirk Douglas film and saw the new one last night. It wasn't bad! I did notice the slaps at Bush and current word conditions though!
One difference I did notice, in the book Spartacus' wife is taken to a band of non-Romans where she eventualy marries a local, has a child and names him Spartacus, who when he grows up leads the locals in fighting to keep the Romans away.
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:05:52 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(DEMS STILL LIE like yellow dogs.)
To: goldstategop
It should be a great period piece. And a nice bump for British early history which often gets short shrift. Icon certainly has the money to do it right now. We've seen what Mel can do for 25 meg. Wonder what he could do with 50?
Meanwhile:
About 115 U.S. soldiers have been killed this month alone, compared with fewer than 100 in the three weeks it took to oust Saddam. In all, 523 have been killed since they invaded Iraq.
(the partisan media wouldn't allow a thread without this information)
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:05:55 AM PDT
by
johnb838
("I really don't care; they're all gonna die," US Marine in Fallujah)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Ah, I gotcha. My mistake.
I'm a bit edgy today.
To: Hal1950
A typical Gibson choice.
We can watch Boudicca being whipped by mean Romans, in disgusting detail, and her daughters gang-raped.
Then we can watch vengeful hords of Bretons crucifying Roman civlians in retaliation.
Finally we will be treated to a long drawn out bloody and gory battle scene as the Romans return and finally massacre the revolting Celts, again in sordid detail.
I think Gibson is a sick man who is infatuated with violence of particularly gruesome and sadistic nature.
Lots of stuff happened in history - but he seems to continually to zero in on the most brutal.
With Mel Gibosn, who needs the Colosseum?
(I wonder if it will be in Celtic and Latin with Latin subtitles and with Jewish slave-merchants working for the Romans.)
If he REALLY wanted to do something great, why not a movie on Hannibal and the Second Punic War? At least that was about something significant, and, while brutal enough, has sufficient breadth to allow a gloss over the more repulsive events which occurred.
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:10:15 AM PDT
by
ZULU
To: mandingo republican
I love "Last of the Legions." It sits on my shelf and I'm probably ready for another reading as it's been a few years.
Mel seems to like anti-Empire films although I like his flicks.
To: ZULU
***I think Gibson is a sick man who is infatuated with violence of particularly gruesome and sadistic nature. *****
But KILL BILL 1&2 is ok?
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posted on
04/28/2004 10:14:44 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(DEMS STILL LIE like yellow dogs.)
To: KellyAdmirer
Not according to Webster:
Etymology: probably blend of bold and audacious Your source?
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