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Post by Administrator on Sept 20, 2006 7:11:48 GMT -7
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MaxImusMan
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The Mighty Dragons
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Post by MaxImusMan on Sept 20, 2006 9:18:46 GMT -7
Vin Diesel as Hannibal, I can just see it now
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Post by Sir George, Spanish Rebel on Sept 20, 2006 11:05:49 GMT -7
Hannibal the Cannibal? Haha jk
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Post by evilemperor on Sept 20, 2006 18:31:23 GMT -7
What a disappointment...
I had heard about his project a couple years back and was kind of hoping he wouldn't really have anything to do with it. No offense to him or anything but I can't really see Vin Diesel as playing Hannibal. Who knows though, maybe with a stroke of luck it might work out.... I won't be a complete a-hole about it.
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Post by Mara Jade85 on Sept 21, 2006 9:56:33 GMT -7
Apparently Vin is a history buff, so in that sense maybe there's some hope as far as his directing. But they should get somebody else, like a black guy to play Hannibal
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Post by Lord Revan on Sept 21, 2006 16:52:48 GMT -7
Was Hannibal black?
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Post by evilemperor on Sept 21, 2006 22:47:30 GMT -7
Although there is a very small possibility, I highly doubt it. The Carthaginians were of Phoenician descent which were similar to the Egyptians.  I don't know... does he look black? I honestly don't know. Looks like one of us here is gonna have to research it. Edit: Wow, I found something interesting in the wiki: "Origins Recent DNA (Y chromosome) studies conducted by the National Geographic Magazine on the bones of ancient Phoenicians and living people from Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Mediterranean prove that both Muslims and Christians from those areas carry the same ancient Phoenician genetic material. Further, the Phoenician bloodline has been proven to come from an ancient Mediterranean sub-stratum (see: Arniaz-Villena, et al. "HLA genes in Macedonians..." Tissue Antigens, February 2001, volume 57, issue 2, pages 118-12). The stories of their emigrating to the eastern Mediterranean are unfounded. Hence, Herodotus's account (written c. 440 BC) refers to a faint memory from 1000 years earlier, and so may be subject to question (History, I:1):" See the whole article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia |
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Post by Master Chief on Sept 23, 2006 11:00:20 GMT -7
Heh, thats cool. However, the origins of Hannibal also remain debated by Historians Here's one for him being black "Hannibal is usually depicted as a white man, but his coins in the British Museum and the Museo Kercheriano, Rome, show him to have been an African of purest type with rings in his ears. Col. Hennebert, perhaps the leading authority on Hannibal, declares that none of the several differing portraits now exhibited as Hannibal is he, "We do not possess any authentic portrait of Hannibal," he says. (Histoire d'Annibal, Vol. I, p. 495, Paris, 1870). These coins were struck by Hannibal while he was in Italy. In the absence of other information the most logical argument is that they bore his own effigy, the more so, as the several kinds of them bear the same likeness. Above all, let us remember that he was an African. " www.users.fast.net/~blc/blac2.htm |
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Post by evilemperor on Sept 30, 2006 19:08:42 GMT -7
Nice job there Chief.
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Post by Lord Revan on Oct 25, 2007 10:11:20 GMT -7
I see the script will be in Latin, Punic, and Greek.
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Post by Mara Jade85 on Oct 27, 2007 14:57:34 GMT -7
That'll be interesting
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Post by evilemperor on Oct 28, 2007 0:32:45 GMT -7
I see the script will be in Latin, Punic, and Greek. That's actually the thing that has me excited. It'd be great if more movies like that came out. Passion of The Christ for instance was received pretty well. |
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Post by Administrator on Oct 28, 2007 10:12:27 GMT -7
These guys better get with it though if they want it out in 2008. Looking at their progress, I don't see this film coming out any earlier than a year from now. Still, I also like the idea of using the languages spoken in that time. Good call by Diesel or whoever decided that.
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