Mel Gibson To Produce 'Boudicca' Film Epic

NewsScotsman ^ | 28 April 2004 | Mark Sage

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**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.

[mandingo republican]

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.

[11th Earl of Mar]

I am applying for a job in makeup.

[mware]

yeap

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Hmm sounds like the plot to the 1968 movie THE VIKING QUEEN.

[Snardius]

Celtic warriors fought completely nude

"Nice spear you got there, soldier."

[Agnes Heep]

I've been dying for years to learn something about Boudicca. I can hardly wait for Gibson's film.

[Hacksaw]

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.

[1066AD]

Long excerpt from Tacitus here:
http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/tacitus.html#boudicca

[Robert A Cook PE]

BRAOFF!

Hips, Hips, Hurry!

(Ooops. I'm sorry.)

Hip, Hip, Hurray! Bravo!)

[cyborg]

ping just cuz it's interesting

[Junior]

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.

[gawd]

Ol' Mel has a serious fetish with hard core violence. mates.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**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.

[johnb838]

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)

[Rebelbase]

Ah, I gotcha. My mistake.

I'm a bit edgy today.

[ZULU]

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.

[what's up]

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.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***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?

[EggsAckley]

Not according to Webster: Etymology: probably blend of bold and audacious

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