Alexander Vs Alexander the Great

Terecht natuurlijk, zo'n bink als ik hoort verfilmd te worden

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Op maandag 3 november 2003 03:04 schreef francia het volgende:
Alexander is zo'n byzondere man geweest, met zo'n iemand als hij zou je bijna in menselijke goden geloven. wat hij allemaal geflikt heeft; hij was 23 en had al een wereldrijk veroverd.

het schijnt ook een heel knappe en intelligente man geweest te zijn,

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Op woensdag 5 november 2003 21:47 schreef Henk_Glimlach het volgende:

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en volslagen gestoord
Briljant tacticus, onverschrokken, absoluut. Maar ook volslagen gestoord. Mij benieuwen of ze dat ook gaan laten zien, of een soort meisjesidool van hem gaan maken.

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Ik kijk erg uit naar beide versies, de versie van Oliver Stone ben ik het meest benieuwd naar. Ik ben een beetje bang dat de versie van Luhrman te gelikt gaat worden, maar het worden vast beide goede films.

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Baz Luhrmann Gives Alexander the Great Update
Source: BBCi Films Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Director Baz Luhrmann has given an update on his Alexander the Great project which will star Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman. He says he will start filming next September, despite the fact that Oliver Stone's Untitled Alexander the Great Project is already filming.

"I think you might want to see that [Stone's film] but it's not much of a stretch of the imagination to imagine mine's going to be different," he told BBCi Films, adding, "I never do anything on anyone else's schedule and I make things when I'm ready, basically."

In the meantime he's directing what he calls "a one minute movie" and everyone else calls "a pretentious commercial" for a perfumer. It'll star Nicole Kidman.

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Lurhmann's Alexander the Great Not Dead
Source: E! Online
Tuesday, July 13, 2004

E! Online says that, despite published reports to the contrary, Baz Luhrmann's epic Alexander the Great is not dead yet. The Universal Pictures and DreamWorks co-production would star Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role and Nicole Kidman as Alexander's mother, Olympia.

The 'Telegraph' reported that Luhrmann decided to scrap the flick because he wanted to take a year off and spend more time with his production designer wife, Catherine Martin, and their new daughter, Lillian, born last October. The story was subsequently picked up by the New York Post.

However, disputing those accounts, Luhrmann's Australia-based rep, Maria Farmer, said the filmmaker has not scuttled his big-budget historical biopic on the Macedonian conquerer, and is still firming up plans for his next cinematic outing.

"Baz is currently in Europe working on the final draft of his script for 'Alexander the Great'. When he completes that draft he will decide whether Alexander is the next film on his slate," Farmer said. "We do not know where these reports have originated from. They certainly did not come from Baz."