Posted on 09/14/2007 1:24:34 PM PDT by lizol
Gibson, De Niro in Polish big budget film project?
Friday, September 14. 2007
The most expensive ever big-budget movie is about to be made in Poland. “Victoria” retells the story of the Polish victory in the 1683 Battle of Vienna. Possible highlights include Hollywood cast and “Lord of the Rings” special effects crew.
The budget for the movie is to be 200 million zloty (50 million euro).
The ambitious plans for the project include asking Mel Gibson to direct and play the part of king Sobieski for 20 million dollars, casting Robert De Niro, as well as getting the famous “Lord of the Ring” crew to create special effects.
The first ever film fund in Poland is being created by Mariusz A. Białek, producer of “Victoria”. Investors will buy shares and make profit when, or rather if, the film starts to gross money.
Such funds have been successful abroad.
“A film fund would definitely prove an interesting change for investors, especially in a time of prolonged corrections of the stock market. Films can be a highly profitable investment, but a risky one as well”, Mateusz Walczak, President of New World Alternative Investments told Puls Biznesu.
The fund will be open so anyone will be able to buy shares. “The price per share has not yet been established”, says Białek, who will pay for the film with his own money.
He first got interested in making the movie after the 9/11 attacks. “The associations seemed obvious. Here was another clash of two religious worlds. 11 September 1683 Muslim fighters were also at the heart of Western civilization. And then too the Western world united”, recounts Białek.
The work on “Victoria” started 3 years ago when Białek asked scriptwriter Cezary Harasimowicz to write the script.
Getting such stars as Mel Gibson involved are optimistic, however, as his diary is full for the next six years.
Omg! A film about the defeat of the Muslims in Europe by the hands of Christians!? Hell is quite chilly today.
The Gates of Vienna...
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What a great idea!
Wow! I’m excited. The Battle of Vienna of 1683 was the last, greatest onslaught of the Horde’s threat to destory civilization. That it isn’t in US history books is an amazing demonstration that our history books were never anything besides Anglican, and then Humanist, propaganda.
This is gonns p!ss the imams off.
Go get 'em MEL.
should be an interesting movie. after centuries of on and off war, this battle stopped the muslim invasion of europe.
Is that the battle that Prince Eugen won? He was treated like a god by the Viennese after that. (I’m assuming I have the right battle.)
It's a two-bit movie.
The day or so after Sept. 11, 1683 and the day of Sept. 11, 2001 are
just the bookends of the quiet period of Islam.
Those “good old days” before Sept. 11, 1683 for Isalmics are back again,
I do fear.
I hope someone someday does a movie about the seige of Malta. Two books recommended by other Freepers cover this subject well. One is "Angels in Iron," and the other is "The Religion." Of the two, I tended to like "Angels in Iron" better.
The only thing odd about it is that King Jan Sobieski was built like Humpty Dumpty. If John Candy were still alive he’d be the perfect physical type to play him.
I wonder if they’ll get LeeLee Sobieski to appear in the film, she claims to be a descendant of King Jan.
We can only hope.
It must have Joe Pesci too!
Here’s how forgotten the Polish-Lithuanian Empire (1395-1795) is in the Anglosphere: it’s primary reference in Wikipedia is simply in a list of histor’s largest Empires!) It encompassed Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, most of the Ukraine, significant portions of Russia.
Malta would be a great subject. Also Lepanto. Amazing that all of this history has been concealed.
Just so long as it is the gross and not the net. Hollywood accounting can keep any film from making a profit.
I just hope that the movie doesn't get the "Sum of All Fears" treatment. I would hate to see the Muslims beseiging Vienna replaced with some time travelling paleo-Nazis.
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