Posted on 12/26/2006 1:57:31 PM PST by lizol
I'm very, very, very distantly related to a guy who claimed to be Sobieski's grandson (by that loose standard, you're probably related, too).
It's kind of a sore point on the Genealogy boards, I've found.
In any case, the movie itself would be a big event.
The outcome seems too politically incorrect, and too pro-Western for a mainstream Hollywood production.
Mel should direct but not act, with Polish and Austrian unknowns playing the leads, and all dialogue in Polish, German and Turkish.
Knights of the West throwing the Muslim Janissaries of Suleyman the Magnificent back from the gates of Vienna? I'd pay to see that.
PLEASE.
Sobieski was a real hero. Don't have a wack job like Gibson play him.
If this is made, I WILL GO AND SEE IT.
I hope Mel studies up on tossing and catching his mace behing his back, one of King Jan's favorite tricks.
Mel Gibson is certainly the man to take charge in this project. Let's admit it, he's talented, he got the $$$, he's unPC, and best of all, he's independent from Hollywood.
Mel Gibson is certainly the man to take charge in this project. Let's admit it, he's talented, he got the $$$, he's unPC, and best of all, he's independent from Hollywood.
I wonder if Leelee Sobieski will be in the movie?
lolski
Makes me speculate about future movies of Mel Gibson...
2009 - Mel Gibson recreates Churchill's book "the River War" in the Sudan, films in current day Sudan, and winds up embroiled in the troubles there - film at 11.
2011 - Mel Gibson, in association with the Chinese Academy of Film, creates a four hour-long motion picture on the Three Kingdoms period of ancient China, with all dialogue in ancient Chinese (to the best ability of scholars hired to create this) and no subtitles for the domestic Chinese version. Chinese audiences are at a loss.
2013 - Mel Gibson, in a made for TV movie, recreates the story of Samson, with or without Delilah, with special attention to slaying thousands with the jawbone of an ass (ox?) and eye gougings.
2017 - Mel Gibson, in a pay-for-internet-distribution only-series, creates his own interpretation of a two-part drama, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" followed up by "How the Neocons Took Over America" with every character in the movie created by CGI animation except for Jimmy Carter, who plays himself, and Mel Gibson, who narrates.
Good publicity stunt by the director.
All the evidence here is that the producer "approached" Gibson.
Hell, I approached Gibson to donate the the AmishDude fund for benefitting AmishDude. That doesn't mean I'm going to get any money.
I think he is on the cutting edge of what might be called mainstream "violence porn", outside of a horror-movie context. He needs to take some time to relax and do something like Kindergarten Cop. For the moment I can't recall the last gentle romance film he was in, can anyone think of any?
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