Mel Gibson will attempt to make the greatest VIKING movie ever with Leonardo DiCaprio!
Will Mel Gibson (director), Leonardo DiCaprio (lead) and The Departed screenwriter William Monahan (writer) break the Viking genre duck late 2010, when the trio attempt to make the Viking epic to end all Viking epics?
If I know Gibson, he will settle for nothing less than the greatest viking movie ever made.
Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto... with that kind of big budget CV, does anyone doubt Gibson when he takes DiCaprio, gives him the Nordic helmet, a big axe, a longship of his own and shoots a bloody epic the viking motion picture genre hasn’t seen since this side of Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas?
Pathfinder, Outlander and 13th Warrior most recently have tried, but still the king of the viking movies is this over half a century old epic!
Variety carry the scoop, claiming the currently untitled picture to be a period drama (it won’t… it’ll be a dark, grim, bloody, enthralling, gigantic sized epic) and use quotes such as “awe-aspiring” (quote from producer Graham King) and “unsparing” in what they expect from the picture.
Project seems to be in it’s very early incarnation… so nobody is spilling nothin’ just yet, sadly.
I wanna hear more!
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Looking forward to it! Mel’s movies just get better and better.
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It may of had a chance without DiCaprio, the wussy fag boy. Leo is more suited to be a court jester or a bard or even the wife of a viking. But a viking? Spare me. Let me guess, Brad Pitt will play one of the rival viking warlords. Then it could be a big metro sexual themed gay viking orgy. What is Mel thinking?
Anyway, Iceland’s greatest director is undertaking a viking movie of his own right now which will have a higher budget than any film previously made in the country. You wont have to suffer any played out Hollywood faces and it will most likely ring much closer to the real thing.
Idiotic to put Dicabrio in as a viking. They should put in one of those macho badass actors, like Bruce Willis.