Movie Gossip
There was quite a bit of movie gossip this past week … First, from the Hollywood Reporter (and other sources) we hear of a movie-to-be called Odysseus … inter alia: Warners is going back to ancient Greece, winning a major spec script bidding war to pick up “Odysseus,” written by Ann Peacock, with Jonathan Liebesman [...]
300 Se/Pre/Interquel Gossip
Excerpt from a piece at MTV’s Splashpage: About a year ago, news broke that Frank Miller was developing a “300” quasi-sequel. Snyder, who was in Las Vegas this week to pick up a Director of the Year award at ShoWest, revealed that he has indeed heard Miller’s idea for a graphic novel about the events [...]
From the Horatii to Cleopatra
Here’s an interesting bit of synchronicity … my spiders picked up a piece in the Independent which is about Giotto’s Lamentation of Christ … the incipit, however, is rather more in the purview of this blog: There is also anachronism in viewing. We can’t help looking at pictures through our own later eyes. We see [...]
More Clash of the Titans
Last week the details began to leak out … this week, we get some more. The incipit of a brief item from Reuters: Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes will play warring gods in “Clash of the Titans,” an Olympian epic that starts shooting later this month Neeson is playing Zeus, the wise yet sometimes ill-tempered [...]
Centurion Update
An excerpt from Jessica Barnes’ piece at Cinematical: Centurion centers on the famed 9th Legion fighting for their lives behind enemy lines after a devastating guerrilla attack, and joining Kurylenko for the hacking and slashing are Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds), who plays the title character, Dominic West, and Noel Clarke. Marshall spoke with Empire during [...]
Hannibal Flick Update
Vin Diesel’s Fast and the Furious is getting a pile of reviews right now … at the end of the one in the LA Times (and probably elsewhere) we read: And for the last six years, Diesel has remained relentlessly dedicated to bringing a biopic about the Carthaginian military commander Hannibal to the screen. Over [...]
Lucy Lawless in Spartacus Flick?
Variety reports (inter alia): Lucy Lawless is returning to her action-hour roots, signing on to star in the new fantasy-and-fighting series from “Xena: Warrior Princess” masterminds Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi. The previously announced project from Starz Media, “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” will feature the New Zealand-bred thesp, who starred in “Xena” from 1995-2001, as [...]
Hypatia Flick
Not sure if we’ve mentioned this Hypatia flick yet, mention of which I had misfiled quite a while ago. Agora appears to be a movie about Hypatia, set in the late 4th century A.D. and possibly portraying a Christian-inspired burning of the Library of Alexandria. There’s an official website, but all it seems to have [...]
Clash of the Titans Update
A few details are starting to leak out … the incipit of a piece from Reuters: Mads Mikkelsen, Gemma Arterton and Alexa Davalos are joining the cast of “Clash of the Titans,” the Greek-god epic being directed by Louis Leterrier. Sam Worthington stars as Perseus, who embarks on a quest to save a princess and [...]
Uma Medusa?
Tip o’ the pileus to Dorothy King for directing my caerulean brow towards this … there’s an interesting fantasy type movie in the works called Percy Jackson, with a definite Classical twist … here’s the brief coverage from the Telegraph: As a teenager, Uma Thurman was cast as Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, [...]
Spartacus Series in the Works
Word’s out that there’s a new Roman-themed series in the works, drawing inspiration from “Rome” and “300″, and focussing on the story of Spartacus and his revolting ways. As described by Steven DeKnight, it will be: “a totally R-rated, hard, hard show … There are decapitations, people being split in half … We don’t want [...]
