A few years ago, Russell Crowe, star of the breakaway Ridley Scott hit
Gladiator, ran into fellow Australian
Nick Cave and managed to convince the
exotic dancer and
sometime screenwriter to consider writing a sequel of the Roman period piece for him. The resulting script included the reincarnation of Maximus as the eternal warrior, the betrayal of Hephaestus, the sickness unto death of the Roman gods, the martyrdoms of
St. Irenaeus of Lyon and
St. Cassian of Imola,
the persecution of Emperor Decius, the Crusades, and the Vietnam war; it ended in the men's bathroom at the Pentagon.
Here is a review and detailed synopsis of that script, which was unfortunately (though not too surprisingly) rejected by the studios.
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posted by koeselitz
on May 4, 2009 -
44 comments
Thunderdome Filter: In two separate incidents Texas schools have gotten a jump on any sort of dystopic future scenarios by staging illegal forced fights between those in their care. Corpus Christi State School night-staff made disabled residents get out of bed and then
taped them fighting each other in over 20 incidents during 2008. South Oak Cliff High School had a policy between 2003 and 2005 of settling disputes between troubled students by having them
fight it out in a steel cage in the boy's locker room
while students and faculty looked on. Several arrests have been made in the Corpus Christi case and the South Oak Cliff one is just coming to public attention.
posted by CheshireCat
on Mar 20, 2009 -
66 comments
You know the trouble with Historically-Based Movies? Unless you're an uneducated, ignorant moran, you know how they're gonna end. At least that's the argument of this
Premiere article on
10 Movie Endings Spoiled By History. Of course there are ways to avoid that problem, as Cracked.com's (yeah, them)
11 Movies Saved by Historical Inaccuracy declares. Books have been written about
Historical Movies' accuracy or inaccuracy, and
everybody has an opinion on what
the Best Historical Movies are, but if you want your History purely entertaining, there's only one
mandog you can count on: here are Mr. Peabody, Sherman and the
original Wayback Machine dropping in on
Cristopher Columbus,
Pancho Villa and
Francisco Pizarro and the Incas (sorry, no USA History episodes on YouTube).
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posted by wendell
on Jan 6, 2009 -
36 comments
The Oscar Nominees Page is up... ...and it looks like both Gladiator and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon are the two big movies this time, with 10 Nominations each, including Best Picture. In addition, Julia Roberts finally has her oscar nod, as well as Tom Hanks, Ed Harris and Geoffrey Rush returning for another round in the Best Actor Category.
posted by Cavatica
on Feb 13, 2001 -
38 comments
