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Luhrmann's Alexander the Great Still a Go?
by RT Staff | February 22, 2005
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Baz Luhrmann's Alexander the Great movie may yet see the light of day. According to Dark Horizons, Screen Daily is reporting that producer Dino De Laurentiis is intent on getting that movie made. "We will shoot the film in one year's time, and it will be the Alexander that everyone has been waiting for," Laurentiis said. Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman were originally attached to star, with Luhrman directing.

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Bale
Bale writes:
on Feb 22 2005 05:13 PM

[b]Again[/b]
I don't know in the right hands it could be amazing, but I just don't see Luhrmann having the chops to do an epic such as this... but it can't be worse then Oliver Stone's craptacular ALEXANDER.


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William Wallace
William Wallace writes:
on Feb 22 2005 06:25 PM

[b]Well[/b]
While I'm excited to see what Baz can do with it, I've been against the concensus that Stone's was "craptacular."


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loudharley
loudharley writes:
on Feb 22 2005 09:45 PM

Stones alexander was possibly the worst movie ive ever seen,and at this point im not sure i wanna see another alexander movie.

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antarianzan
antarianzan writes:
on Feb 22 2005 10:34 PM

I love Luhrmann. I'm interested in seeing what he'll do with something so completley different than his Red Curtain Trilogy. He and Nicole are quite the team though, I'd think this would be amazing. I hope it finally happens.

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inessalenin
inessalenin writes:
on Feb 23 2005 05:57 PM

I thought he gave up this project due to Oliver Stone's quick action.

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renodc
renodc writes:
on Feb 23 2005 07:47 PM

In reply to this comment (#819976)
He did, but apparently since Stone's version was so bad they've decided to jump back into production on their version.

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Econ
Econ writes:
on Feb 24 2005 09:14 AM

Whats this fascination with Alexander? Plenty of historical titans to choose from.

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rhetoric
rhetoric writes:
on Feb 24 2005 11:46 AM

There isn't one to compare to Alexander. Read some biographies of the other great conquerors and you'll see that none can hold a candle to what Alexander of Macedon accomplished. He was frigging incredible...amazing....Great.

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Aftermath_1551
Aftermath_1551 writes:
on Feb 24 2005 02:45 PM

Baz could do something so spectacular with this, it could blow our socks off, he always puts on big productions and you can see on screen, hope he goes for it! Can't wait...

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ninjaandy
ninjaandy writes:
on Feb 24 2005 05:41 PM

There were maybe a few other exceptional historical war leaders, just none American audiences would care to see, what with all the money they'd have to put into a film about them.

Well, maybe Napoleon. He wasn't as good as Alexander, all things considered, but he might be more interesting.


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cmarlow
cmarlow writes:
on Feb 24 2005 07:32 PM

[b]Good[/b]
Let's fix the disaster of Stone's ALEXANDER and get this genre of action films back on track.


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inessalenin
inessalenin writes:
on Feb 26 2005 02:49 PM

Check his file on IMDB, Baz seems have no project since Moulin Rouge. I know he would do good in Alexander but I wonder how much anticipation people would enter theater? Some bad critics movie still make a big boxoffice but Stone's version was terribly disaster.

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jeanpaul
jeanpaul writes:
on Feb 27 2005 09:22 AM

[b]That's funny...[/b]
Wow, so many are so incredibly SURE baz's version of the Macadonian Conqueror, is going to be great... it would be really FUNNY if, ultimately, after he made it and it came out, Oliver Stone's version, compared, would look like a MASTERPIECE... Nicole Kidman is no recipe for success, she is simply OVEREXPOSED.


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jeremyd4
jeremyd4 writes:
on Feb 27 2005 11:33 PM

Oliver Stone's Alexander wasn't as poorly received internationally as it was in America and has easily surpassed it's production costs now (not saying i'm a fan though)... I'd be interested to see a second attempt at this film just because it seems like a cool thing to do - two directors having a go at the same material. Baz was supposed to make this film first anyways, and had connections with royal families, access to armies and things like that, so I always thought his film was more planned out. It would've been cool to have both movies come out at the same time and then have a movie showdown. This is all kinda like the Exorcist Beginning movies because there's something cool about seeing two versions of the same story and seeing who handled it better. I'd like to see whether the 1st attempt of that movie really was as bad as the studios thought!

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GolemCoor
GolemCoor writes:
on Mar 03 2005 08:32 AM

In reply to this comment (#819978)
[b]Alexander is the greatest[/b]
You really should read more about how great Alexander of Macedonia was before you attempt to put him in the same category as other "historical titans" -- none compare...absolutely not one.


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alexandros
alexandros writes:
on Sep 05 2006 12:04 PM

[b]good[/b]
stone spent a good hour on how Alexander slept, maybe this time the film can focus on his acomplishments, 40,000 greeks defated 200,000 persians show us in detail, How he build the largest port( Alexandria ) he had one blue eye and the other black, show me his military mind.


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alexandros
alexandros writes:
on Sep 06 2006 12:02 PM

In reply to this comment (#819978)
he conquered 90% of the known world by the age of 27, even Julias Cesar looked up to him. When he led his army, he was in the fornt line, many times he'd pass the front to get the first kill , he wouldn't ask his men to do something he himself wouldn't do, that's why his army fought with passion and followed him everywhere.

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