Lurhman's film officially dead...

[xxx]

Toronto SunBaz Luhrmann's keenly anticipated "Alexander The Great" film is now officially dead, according to his Australian friend Nicole Kidman, who was supposed to co-star in it as Olympias.

[Nicator]

Hey Tre,Well, I guess that's kinda bad news! Even a bad movie would have been something we could have watched and talked about for a while. Later Nicator

[beausefaless]

Greetings Nicator,I've been searching the T Sun but did not find this issue but not to say it didn't occur in a previous printing unfortunately I'm not surprise this is the case for the Stone film appears to have plenty of positive optimism, later Nicator.Andrew

[marcus]

And I have to say that I'm very intrigued about what Baz would have done with the story, and how he would have attacked it. I admire his other films, but I can't help but get a feeling that his Alexander would have ended up being some sort of cross between Derek Jarman's 'Sebastian' and 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' :-)All the bestMarcus

[jona]

Exactly. I was afraid that the type of movie that Luhrman makes (and which I like) is ill suited for Alexander. Too much music, too light-hearted, too much art direction. It works for small-scale drama like Romeo and Juliet, but I can't imagine Porus singing on the battlefield.On the other hand, they also said that comics were unsuited to tell the Holocaust story, and Art Spiegelman showed that it was possible; so perhaps, Luhrman's project might have worked.Jona

[Linda]

Marcus said:
"but I can't help but get a feeling that his Alexander would have ended up being some sort of cross between Derek Jarman's 'Sebastian' and 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' "You say that like it is a bad thing...

[marcus]

Not necessarily a bad thing ("Strictly Ballroom" is one of my favourite films), but I can't visualise it working for AtG.M