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SunWuKong
03-21-2005, 07:08 PM
what historical/fictional epics would you like to see made into movies (like Lord of the Rings)?

i want to see Romance of the Three Kingdoms made into a 3-movie epic series. plenty of warfare battle scenes, kungfu, but not the flying around variety.
TB4000
03-21-2005, 07:27 PM
World War I hasn't been done lately, and I want to see the Napoleonic wars as well. Also, it's about time Genghis Khan had a movie. This summer...SWK is....Khan. Rated R for strong graphic violence, nudity, and sexuality.
SunWuKong
03-21-2005, 07:37 PM
World War I hasn't been done lately, and I want to see the Napoleonic wars as well. Also, it's about time Genghis Khan had a movie. This summer...SWK is....Khan. Rated R for strong graphic violence, nudity, and sexuality.

i think Steven Seagal was going to do a movie for Genghis Khan... starring himself as Genghis Khan...
TB4000
03-21-2005, 07:47 PM
Yeah, that's true...thank God it didn't pan out. Khan is a very interesting, albeit difficult character to bring to the screen, though I'm sure someone will figure out the way to do it in a few years.
yoMAMA
03-21-2005, 08:25 PM
Yeah, that's true...thank God it didn't pan out. Khan is a very interesting, albeit difficult character to bring to the screen, though I'm sure someone will figure out the way to do it in a few years.

LOL.......

what historical/fictional epics would you like to see made into movies (like Lord of the Rings)?

i want to see Romance of the Three Kingdoms made into a 3-movie epic series. plenty of warfare battle scenes, kungfu, but not the flying around variety.

hell yeah!

Also, I'd wish they make a multi-series movie with the water margin, or 水滸傳。There's so much drama in the book, and the plot is so twisted and surprising.
ism
03-21-2005, 09:17 PM
Outlaws of the Marsh/Water Margin/All Men Are Brothers -- not sure how many movies this would take.
Journey to the West -- Monkey King for the first movie
Red Chamber Dream
Chronicles of Narnia -- all seven, not just The Lion...
YuheiCarreau
03-21-2005, 09:19 PM
i think Steven Seagal was going to do a movie for Genghis Khan... starring himself as Genghis Khan...

Couldn't possibly be worse than John Wayne's attempt.
yoMAMA
03-21-2005, 09:53 PM
Couldn't possibly be worse than John Wayne's attempt.

he played Ghangis Khan?

I remember watching a movie about Ghangis Khan, all I remember was that he boils his enemies alive.
TB4000
03-21-2005, 10:02 PM
Napoleon and Genghis Khan are the two historical characters I would like to see become movies next, as they both are ripe for huge epic battle scenes.

http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/paragon/1997/napoleon.gif
http://www.kenperkins.net/AAA%20web%20ready/portraits/genghis.jpg
Shuriken
03-22-2005, 04:46 PM
Outlaws of the Marsh/Water Margin/All Men Are Brothers -- not sure how many movies this would take.
Journey to the West -- Monkey King for the first movie
Red Chamber Dream

Hmmm ... no mention of the Jin Ping Mei?

Here's what I think would be a good idea: If a Chinese filmmaker of Chen Kaige's or Zhang Yimou's standing made a two-part film of Dream of the Red Chamber (or Story of the Stone, depending on which translation you prefer) and overlayed it with a subplot about how the novel was written and what was and was not allowed to be handed down by way of the book.

he played Ghangis Khan?

http://www.tallarmeniantale.com/pics/genghis_khan-john-wayne.JPG

Genghis Khan was voted Time magazine's most important person of the 13th century.
SunWuKong
03-22-2005, 06:48 PM
Journey to the West -- Monkey King for the first movie

Stephen Chow already did a comedy-drama two movie series of the Monkey King, but he totally changed the story though. i didn't like it much.
yoMAMA
03-22-2005, 10:23 PM
Hmmm ... no mention of the Jin Ping Mei?






jin ping mei is badass................... :biggrin:




Genghis Khan was voted Time magazine's most important person of the 13th century.

LOL....he was pretty awesome.
SunWuKong
03-23-2005, 06:51 AM
Genghis Khan was voted Time magazine's most important person of the 13th century.

wasn't he also voted the most influential person of the past millenium or something like that?
Martino
03-23-2005, 01:25 PM
what historical/fictional epics would you like to see made into movies (like Lord of the Rings)?

i want to see Romance of the Three Kingdoms made into a 3-movie epic series. plenty of warfare battle scenes, kungfu, but not the flying around variety.

I remember, years ago, there was a TV mini-serial called Centennial. I'd like to see something like that attempted with British history. But with space battles.