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Post by Demetris Christodoulides on Feb 22, 2005 14:30:47 GMT -8
...is finally going to happen!
According to producer Dino De Laurentiis who spoke to an italian newspaper (’ Il Corriere della Sera’ ) about the Baz Luhrmann movie, which will star Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman :
"We will shoot the film in one year’s time, and it will be the Alexander that everyone has been waiting for!!", he said.
The project has been postponed in 2004 because they didn’t want it in conflict with Oliver Stone’s one but now the producer said :
" "I don’t want to hit out against Oliver Stone, who merits respect. But his picture was certainly flawed, and was missing the spine of a screenplay.""
and he also added the following about epic films in general :
"epic films are difficult to do well. King Arthur was also flawed. It badly copied ideas from the third film in my schedule, which is based on Valerio Massimo Manfredi’s novel, ’The Last Legion’."
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Any thoughts? I hope Craig Armstrong (regular Baz Luhrmann friend and collaborator) will be in this project as well....really curious of what the result could be.
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Mac Styran
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Post by Mac Styran on Feb 22, 2005 15:09:40 GMT -8
Anything that Craig comes up with will be better than Vangelis's Alexander. You heard me. No offense, Demetris.
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Post by Demetris Christodoulides on Feb 22, 2005 15:31:35 GMT -8
hehe absolutely Mac!
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Post by MikeP on Feb 22, 2005 15:55:53 GMT -8
Any thoughts? I hope Craig Armstrong (regular Baz Luhrmann friend and collaborator) will be in this project as well....really curious of what the result could be. I don't know. As much as I love Armstrong, he will have to come up with something much better than Plunkett and Macleane to do an epic film justice. I'm just not sure if he is up to the task of scoring epic action material. This is of course assuming the film actually calls for epic action material, and isn't a hodge-podge of pop-score music like Romeo and Juliet and Moulin Rouge. If that is what the movie is going to be - I can't wait to hear Armstrong's material almost as much as I dread seeing the movie! And now that I think about it, the casting is a bit odd. Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman? Is this really confirmed?
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Post by pmrsim on Feb 23, 2005 1:25:48 GMT -8
Interesting! Very interesting. Glad to see Luhrman going ahead with his "Alexander" (and how nice to see he's got a King Arthur tale in the works too). I sure hope he'll stick with Armstrong for the music. pete.
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Post by Armin on Feb 23, 2005 11:20:19 GMT -8
Armstrong can do it. Yared can do it. The question is whether some silly American test audience will not be too screwed up in their heads to realize that.
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